BRAMA, May 22, 2000, 10:00am EST

PEN Award for Lysheha Poems

HURI Publications is pleased to announce that James Brasfield and Oleh Lysheha received the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for "The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha," published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and distributed by Harvard University Press. The award was given on May 15 at the Lincoln Center in a ceremony featuring some of the United States' foremost writers, playwrights, editors, and publishers. For information on the award and event, please go to http://www.pen.org/awards/awards00.html. For information on the book, see http://www.hup.harvard.edu/F99Books/catalog/collected_lysheha.html. "The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha" also has won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize; Lysheha has been selected for the Harbourfront International Authors Festival in Toronto in October; and the poem "Swan" has been selected for the XXIV Pushcart Prize Anthology.