Ivan Malkovych
Ivan Antonovich Malkovych is a noted Ukrainian poet and publisher. He is the proprietor of the publishing house "A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", which specializes in high quality editions of Ukrainian literature and poetry, and has been a winner of many industry awards.Biography
He completed his studies as a violinist at the Music college in Ivano-Frankivsk before entering Kiev University in 1978 where he majored in Ukrainian philology. He was noted by poet Dmytro Pavlychko who took him under his wing.
Malkovych was closely associated with the first Canadian-Ukrainian joint venture known as Kobza and was involved in the setting up of the Chervona Ruta festival of contemporary Music held in Chernivtsi in 1989.Career
Malkovych published 5 collections of his own verse:
- "White Stone"
- "The Key"
- "Poems"
- "An Angel on my Shoulder"
- "Winter Poems"
- "All that's near"
