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Igor Kaczurowskyj (in Ukrainian: ''Ігор Васильович Качуровський''; 1 September 1918 Nizhyn, Ukraine – 18 July 2013, Munich, Germany) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, novelist and short story writer, literary scholar, university lecturer, journalist. == Life == Igor Kaczurowskyj was born on September 1, 1918 in Nizhyn (Ukraine) in a family of graduated of the Kyiv University. His father practised law, afterwards specialized in economy as well, for some time the held the rank of a state secretary assistant in the Central Council of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Центральна Рада). Until the age of 12, Kaczurowskyj lived in Kruty, a small village (presently in the Nizhyn district of the Chernihiv Oblast). In 1932 the family, in order to avoid repressions, set off for Kursk (Russia). Kaczurowskyj studied, till 1941, in the Kursk "pedagogical institute" (an establishment of higher education in the Soviet Union), where Boris Jarkho (Jarcho),〔http://homepage.univie.ac.at/emmerich.kelih/wp-content/uploads/p2007_jarcho_bio_glottometrics.pdf〕 Petro Odarchenko were professors; in 1942 he returned to Ukraine, in 1943 he moved westward; from 1945 on he lived in Austria. Kaczurowskyj started to publish his writings in 1946, winning the next year a literary prize for his short story “The Passport”; at the same time he began to co-operate with the staff of the magazine “Litavry” (“Kettle-drums”). He was one of the founding members of the Union of Ukrainian Scholars, Writers and Artists in Salzburg. In 1948 he emigrated to Argentina and settled near Buenos Aires. Working as a port labourer, he at the same time edited the magazine “Porohy” (“Dnipro-Waterfalls”), wrote for the periodicals “Ovyd” (“Outlook”), “Mitla” (“The Broom”), “Novi Dni” (“New Days”). In 1958–62 he assisted the Instituto Grafotécnico (a Literary Institution); 1963–64 he lectured on Ancient Ukrainian literature at the Catholic University, in 1968 on Russian literature at the University of El Salvador, both in Buenos Aires. In 1969 he moved to Munich (German Federal Republic), remaining nevertheless a citizen of Argentina. In the 1970–80s he wrote and broadcast over two-thousand scripts, as a literary commentator (program specialist) at the “Ukrainian Desk” of the broadcasting service Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. At the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), he obtained his PhD degree for his thesis “Old Slavic beliefs and their connections with Indo-Iranian religions”; from 1973 on he lectured at the UFU, from 1982 as an ordinary professor; at the Faculty of Philosophy he held lectures on Metre (poetry)versification, stylistics, theory of literary genres, history of the Ukrainian literature of the 1920–30s, History of Medieval European literature.〔(Ігор Качуровський // Вітчизна. — 2007. — № 1—2. )〕 He was a member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile “Slovo” (“The Word”), the Union of Argentine Writers SADE (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores), National Union of Writers of Ukraine (since 1992). In accordance with his own wish, uttered repeatedly in conversations and letters to acquaintances, his ashes were buried in his home village Kruty, the solemn event having taken place 22 November 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Igor Kaczurowskyj」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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