Description: This book shares the remarkable and often challenging life journeys of nine Ukrainians from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava, and one Austrian who chose to be Ukrainian.
Brief description:
Dr Olga Khomenko is a CARA/British Academy Fellow at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford. Olga studied Japanese and international history with special emphases on Eastern Asia and Eastern Europe in Kyiv and Tokyo, worked at the Ukrainian News agency UNIAN as well as the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo, and taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv School of Economics as well as at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School. Khomenko was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and held fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, International Research Center of Japanese Studies, Vienna University, and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. She is the author of Transnational history of Ukraine (Gunzosha 2024), Ukrainians beyond Borders (Gunzosha 2022), From Ukraine with Love (Gunzosha 2014) and co-editor of A Short Anthology of Contemporary Ukrainian Literature (Gunzosha 2005).
Review Quotes: One of [Khomenko's] three books on Ukraine that exist in Japanese language you must read.--Nihon Keizai Shimbun / The Nikkei