Thursday, October 19, 2006

 

Old protest postcards: Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets





This image of the poet Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets, is from one of a series of protest postcards from the 1970's and 1980's trying to draw attention to Soviet political prisoners. The back reads as follows:

IRYNA STASIV-KALYNETS

"Born December 6, 1940; Ukrainian philologist and poetess; wife of Ukrainian poet and political prisoner Ihor Kalynets; mother of a teenage daughter.

"She was arrested in 1972 during the period of mass repressions in Ukraine and sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment and exile for the content of her poetic works.

"Address in exile (with her husband):
USSR, Chitinskaya oblast, 673433
Beleysky rayon, Undino-Poselye
U1, Sovyetskaya 132, kv. 2"

I think she survived but I haven't found any translations of her work.





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