Yesterday at 17:17
Historian Volodymyr Viatrovych and translator Ksenia Maryniak received an award from the Stanley Peterson Canadian Literary Foundation for their translation of ‘The Gordian Knot. The Second Polish-Ukrainian War 1942–1947’. In Ukraine, the publication is known as the ‘Second Polish-Ukrainian War 1942 – 1947’.
UA reports this with reference to the Center for Liberation Movement Studies.
The ceremony took place in Toronto. Information about the winners of this year’s translation award is available on the official website of the Peterson Literary Foundation.
Volodymyr Viatrovych and Ksenia Maryniak received the award ‘in recognition of the fact that this book promotes new research and analysis from the Ukrainian point of view of the historically sensitive period in Ukrainian-Polish relations, which will help generate future academic discussions on this topic’.
In his speech at the award ceremony, the author emphasized the key role of translations of books on the history of Ukraine into other languages.
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‘Now is the best time to make the history of Ukraine known not only to Ukrainians, but to the world. And this is necessary not only for the world to be fuller. That is one of the important parts of world history – the history of Ukraine – it should be known to all. This is needed to understand the present. For the world to understand what is happening in and around Ukraine today, for the world to realize that Ukrainians today are defending not only their country, but the world – the world of freedom – and in this they need help and joint efforts. I am convinced that by telling our history we are making Ukraine stronger and are laying the foundations for our support by the free countries’ – Volodymyr Viatrovych stressed.
The historian thanked the Stanley Peterson Foundation, which helps the world understand Ukrainian history.
Viatrovych worked on the book while working at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University in 2010-2011. In 2011 it was published by the publishing house of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Relying on unique sources of Soviet, German, Polish and other archives, Volodymyr Viatrovych spoke about the recently unexplored historical events of the armed conflict between Poles and Ukrainians, which erupted in 1942 in Kholm, spread to Volyn and Galicia, and lasted until 1947. The author paid a lot of attention to the influence of political processes on the causes and course of hostilities, attempts to establish cooperation between the two sides during and after World War II, as well as the role and place of this war in the memory of both peoples.
