Pysa4ka presents media project English Visuals Precarpathian University Ukraine Прикарпатський університет (с) Писачка, 2019 mazepi10@gmail.com

1. IVAN MALKOVICH
Lidia Hrytsiuk,
Precarpathian university
Ivano-Frankivsk

2. Who is he?
An open face, tender,
almost childish smile,
light brown hair falling on
a shoulder, long fingers of
a musician.
And yet - delicacy in
everything: in gestures, in
conversation.
This is Ivan Malkovich, an original
poet of the Hutsul region, who was
born in the village of Nyzhiy Bereziv,
Kosiv district.

3. Kosiv district

4. BIOGRAPHY
After leaving local school, he
entered Ivano-Frankivsk Music
college (violin class), which he
graduated in 1980. In 1985 he
graduated Philological Faculty
of T. Shevchenko Kyiv State
University.
Січових Стрільців, 44б, Івано-Франківськ

5. WHERE DID HE
WORK?
…he worked as a teacher in Kyiv region, a literary editor in
publishing housesVeselka (1986-1987),Youth (1987-1989),
the children's magazine "Sunflower" (1991-1992), editor-in-
chief of the children's programs of "Ukrtelefilm" (1993).
1. He worked as a teacher…

6. POET
• Another nineteen-year-old boy at the all-
Ukrainian seminar of young authors he was
chosen as the best poet. The output of his
first book was warmly defended by the
legendary Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko. In
1986, I. Malkovich became the youngest
member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.

7. Organizer, author,
translator
Ivan Malkovich was one of the
organizers of the first song festival
"Chervona Ruta" in Chernivtsi in 1989.
Now Ivan Malkovich is apublisher,
editor, author and translator of several
dozens books for children.

8. "A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA"
Since 1992 he is a founder and director
of the children's literature publishing
house "A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA", whose
rights to print books were bought by
well-known publishers from eleven
countries of the world.

9. “Harry Potter”
in Ukraine…
• The London office of Joan Rowling
confirmed that it was the Ukrainian
translation of the last Harry Potter book to
be the first in the world (Russian will
appear on bookshelves only October 13).
The Russians and Ukrainians competed for
the championship. Even at the
presentation, Mr. Malkovich showed a
postcard, which was sent to postal
addresses in Ukraine, with an invitation to
subscribe to the book after October 13th
(and only in lower case, the Russian-
language edition was indicated below).

10. NEW «The Snow Queen» -
MAGIC ELECTRONIC
SOURCE on the iPad from
«A-BA BA-HA-LA-MA-Ha»
The book version of "The Snow Queen", published by
Ivan Malkovich's Publishing House
"A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", read by children in 19
countries of the world.
The book received many awards, in particular:
The Grand Prix of the National Book of the Year 2000
Contest
The title "Man of the Book 2002" of the Moscow
magazine "Book Review" for the artist V. Yerko
Best Children's Book 2006 (USA), Anderson Foundation.