The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad

About Volodymyr Rafeyenko

Volodymyr Rafeyenko is an award-winning Ukrainian writer poet translator and literary and film critic. Although he initially wrote and published in Russian his novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love was his first written in Ukrainian. It was nominated for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Ukraines highest award in arts and culture. Among other recognitions he is the winner of the Volodymyr Korolenko Prize for the novel Brief Farewell Book and the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award for the novel The Length of Days. Sibelan Forrester is the Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College. She has published translations of fiction poetry and scholarly prose from Croatian Russian and Serbian. Her own research includes womens and gender studies South Slavic literature folklore science fiction Russian Silver Age poetry and the history and theory of translation. Marci Shore is Associate Professor of History at Yale University.