Meeting with Vasyl Husti, Ukrainian poet, publicist, and translator

Vasyl Husti’s poems have been set to music by S. Marton, M. Panchenko, V. Haiduk, M. Popenko, V. Telychko, S. Hyha, Zoya Slobodian, I. Kozar, P. Gotvoni, V. Tsyhanyn, P. Matii, and others.

The writer is the organizer of several cultural and educational events – “Writer to the village library, village library to the writer”, “Healing Word”, etc. He is the initiator of the Carpathian Vatra festival, which brings together poets from Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Chernivtsi regions and Ukrainian poets from Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania.

Vasyl Husti is one of the compilers of the anthology of short fiction “Slnko nad Karpatmi” (Kosice, 1985), the compiler of the collective collections “Ringing Spring” (1983), “Echoes” (1985), “Origins” (1988), and the anthology “Zakarpattia Poetry of the Twentieth Century” (2003). Translates from Slovak and Hungarian.

Collections of poetry:

“Peron” (1979), ‘Desire of the Road’ (1982), ‘Faces’ (1985), ‘Lay a Towel for Me, Mother’ (1991), ‘Kalyna in Frost’ (1991), ‘A Handful of Drops’ (1991), ‘Grain in the Arable Land’ (1996), ‘Between the Shores of Silence’ (1998), “The Yew Tree Has Hewn the Stone” (2001), ‘Birch Wheel’ (2005), ‘The River Under the Ice’ (2009), ‘Bitter Wormwood, Sweet Wormwood’ (2012), ‘Dawn of Bialowieza’ (2013), ‘Zatysińska Outskirts’ (2016), ‘Dawn on Anna’s Day’ (2016).

Collections of poetic miniatures:

“Oprisnyky” (2006), ‘Leaf to Leaf’ (2011).

Books of essays and memoirs:

“An Uncharted Path Calls to Thought” (1997), ‘A Bottle of Burgundy’ (2003).

“Whom I Knew, Whom I Love (2009), Not Everything Is Washed Away by the Waves of Time (2014),

Books of humor and satire:

“Tales from Taradaika” (1997), ‘A Gift from an Investor’ (2005), ”Zakarpattia Currency” (2015)

Plays for children:

“How Cancer Neborak Taught Goat to Think” (2000).