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Vera Rich

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

April 24, 1936

Died

December 20, 2009

Genre

Poetry

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Vera Rich was a British poet, journalist, historian, human right activist and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian.

Born in London, she studied at St Hilda's College of University of Oxford and Bedford College, London. In 1959, her poetry attracted the attention of the editors of John O'London's Weekly and the following year her first collection of verse, Outlines, was privately produced and received favourable reviews, selling out within six months.

Her translations of the works of Taras Shevchenko, commissioned for the century of his death (1961) received excellent reviews, both in the West and in the Soviet Ukraine. For this work, Vera Rich was awarded an Honorary Diploma in Shevchenko Studies by the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences Vera Rich was a British poet, journalist, historian, human right activist and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian.

Born in London, she studied at St Hilda's College of University of Oxford and Bedford College, London. In 1959, her poetry attracted the attention of the editors of John O'London's Weekly and the following year her first collection of verse, Outlines, was privately produced and received favourable reviews, selling out within six months.

Her translations of the works of Taras Shevchenko, commissioned for the century of his death (1961) received excellent reviews, both in the West and in the Soviet Ukraine. For this work, Vera Rich was awarded an Honorary Diploma in Shevchenko Studies by the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences.

Later, influenced by Fr. Ceslaus Sipovich, she started also translating Belarusian poetry. Her first translation from Belarusian was the poem Na čužynie by Janka Kupala. Her Like Water, Like Fire published in 1971 became the world's first anthology of translations of Belarusian poetry into a western European language. Later she published The Images Swarm Free, a collection of translations of verses by prominent Belarusian authors, Aleś Harun, Maksim Bahdanovič, and Źmitrok Biadula.

Vera Rich was the founder of Manifold, "the magazine of new poetry". It was started in 1962 and appeared regularly under Vera's editorship until May 1969, when it was suspended owing to Vera's taking a job as Soviet and East European Correspondent for the scientific weekly Nature. At the time of its suspension Manifold had close on 900 subscribers, almost half of them in the USA. This initially temporary job at Nature lasted for more than 20 years. It was only in 1998 that it proved possible to relaunch Manifold. All together, 49 issues were published under Vera's editorship. It published original high-quality poetry in traditional and innovative styles, in various variants of English, and - from time to time - in major European languages, as well as translations of poetry from less-known languages. ...more

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	Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko, Vera Rich (Translator), Taras Shevchenko 4.51 avg rating — 1,416 ratings — published 1840 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cassandra by Lesia Ukrainka, Vera Rich (Translator) 4.52 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1905 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moses and Other Poems by Іван Франко, Ivan Franko, Vera Rich (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 1905 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems, Painting, Graphic Works by Taras Shevchenko, Vera Rich (Translator), Іван Дзюба (Foreword) 4.11 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1961 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day (Unesco collection of representative works: European series) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Healing of the Nations 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Harald Hardrade, Rognvald Brusason and the "Cities of Cherven" 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heritage of Dreams: A Sketchbook in Verse of Orkney 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sonnetarium: A chapbook of sonnets 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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