Michael M. Naydan

Michael Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published over 50 articles on literary topics and more than 80 translations in journals and anthologies. He has translated, co-translated, or edited more than 40 books of translations, including Mark Andryczyk's Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War (Penguin Books, 2023), Zelensky: A Biography (Polity Press, 2023), Yuri Vynnychuk's The Night Reporter: A 1938 Lviv Murder Mystery ...See more

Michael Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published over 50 articles on literary topics and more than 80 translations in journals and anthologies. He has translated, co-translated, or edited more than 40 books of translations, including Mark Andryczyk's Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War (Penguin Books, 2023), Zelensky: A Biography (Polity Press, 2023), Yuri Vynnychuk's The Night Reporter: A 1938 Lviv Murder Mystery (Glagoslav Publications, 2021), Selected Poetry of Bohdan Rubchak: Songs of Love, Songs of Death, Songs of the Moon (Glagoslav Publications, 2020); Maria Matios's novel Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages and Yuri Vynnychuk's novel of the Shoah Tango of Death (both with Spuyten Duyvil Publishers, 2019). His own novel about the city of Lviv Seven Signs of the Lion appeared with Glagoslav Publications in 2016. He has co-translated several of these and other volumes with Alla Perminova. He has received numerous prizes for his translations including the George S.N. Luckyj Award in Ukrainian Literature Translation from the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies in 2013. See less