Iryna Yevsa

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Iryna Oleksandrivna Yevsa (Russian: Ирина Александровна Евса, Ukrainian: Ірина Олександрівна Євса) (born October 15, 1956) is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet and translator. She lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Yevsa was born into a military family in Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR. She studied in the philological faculty at the National University of Kharkiv and graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow in 1981.^[1] Following her graduation, she worked at the Book Chamber of Ukraine from 1981-1986 and began working for the company Apis in 1988.^[2] She has recently worked for the National University of Kharkiv.

First published as a poet in 1975, Yevsa also translates literature from Armenian, Georgian, Polish, and Ukrainian into Russian. Her own work has been translated into Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Lithuanian, and Serbian.^[1]

• 1976, Отзвук (Echo)
• 1978, Дыхание (Breath)
• 1985, Август (August)
• 1986, Сад (Garden)
• 1986, День седьмой (Day Seven)
• 1995, Изгнание из рая (Exile from Paradise)
• 1999, Наверное, снилось… (Probably Dreamed...)
• 2000, Лодка на фаянсе (Boat on Faience)
• 2015, Юго-Восток (South-East)

With the subtitle, "Modern Poetic Version of Iryna Yevsa"

• Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / translated by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kholodkovskii
• Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. / translated by Dmytry Dmytryevich Minaev
• Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, John Milton / translated by A. N. Shulgovskaya
• Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam
• Short stories and poems, Edgar Allan Poe
• Works of Oscar Wilde
• Venus and Adonis, William Shakespeare
• Othello, William Shakespeare / interlinear notes by Pyotr Isaevich Weinberg
• The Rape of Lucrece, William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare / interlinear notes by Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare / translated by Konstantin Konstantinovich
• King Lear, William Shakespeaere / translated by M. A. Kuzmina
• The Phoenix and the Turtle, William Shakespeare
• Orphic Hymns
• Song of Songs
• Psalms of David

In collaboration with A. K. Shaposhnikov

• Gathas, Zarathustra
• Selections from the work of Pythagoras
• The fragments of Sappho
• Selected fragments from the Seven Sages
• Book of the Dead
• Prophecies of Pythia and Sibyl

• 2000, named as a laureate for the International Foundation for the Memory of Boris Chichibabin^[3]
• 2013, Paragraph anti-award in the category for "worst translation" criticizing her work translating out-of-copyright literary classics into Russian^[4]
• 2016, Russian Prize at the XIV Literary Festival Named after Maximilian Voloshin for her work "Юго-Восток" ("South-East")^[5]