Stech Marko Robert
Marko was born in 1961 in Lublin, Poland. He is a literary critic, writer, creative professional in fields of theatre and cinema, educational and publishing programs organizer. Since 1982 he has lived in Toronto, Canada. He is a Doctor in Slavic Studies (postgraduate studies at Toronto University, 1992; dissertation on dramaturgy of Mykola Kulish), Master in Engineering.
In 1980s, he founded and chaired the Avant-Garde Ukrainian Theatre; co-founder of The Terminus Magazine. Producer of the film Oxygen Starvation (directed by A. Donchyk), assistant producer of The Swan Lake: Zones (directed by Y. Illienko).
Presently he works as a Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Project Manager of the English-language Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, and the English-language edition of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi’s History of Ukraine-Rus. Stech is a professor of Ukrainian culture and history at the York University in Toronto.
Bibliography
Author of the novel The Voice (2005), awarded with the Mykola Gogol International Prize for Literature in 2009, and experimental prose text The Undying. Author of the book of selected literary studies essayistics and interviews Essayistics in Search of the Sources (2016). Compiler and author of the four extensive commentaries for Ihor Kostetskyi’s book To You the Whole World Belongs (2005), and co-compiler of the anthology of contemporary Ukrainian short prose in Czech translations Ukrajina, Davaj, Ukrajina! (2012).
Author of numerous works in literary studies (in particular on Mykola Kulish, Ihor Kostetskyi, Yuri Kosach, Emma Andievska), stories and plays.
Distinctions
- Лавреат Міжнародної літературної премії ім. Івана Кошелівця (2008)
- Лавреат Мистецької премії "Глодоський скарб" (2014)
- Лавреат Міжнародної літературної премії ім. Миколи Гоголя (2009)
- Лавреат Міжнародної літературно-мистецької премії імені Пантелеймона Куліша (2017)