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Vera Rich (born Faith Elizabeth Joan Rich, 24 April 1936 – 20 December 2009) was a British poet, journalist, historian, and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian.
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Vera Rich (born Faith Elizabeth Joan Rich, 24 April 1936 – 20 December 2009) was a British poet, journalist, historian, and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian.
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Biography Born in London in April 1936, she studied at St Hilda's College of the University of Oxford and Bedford College, London. In 1959, her poetry attracted the attention of the editors of John O'London's Weekly and the following year her first collection of verse, Outlines, was privately produced and received favourable reviews, selling out within six months. Her translations of the works of Taras Shevchenko, commissioned for the century of his death (1961), received favourable reviews, both in the West and in Soviet Ukraine. For this work, Rich was awarded an Honorary Diploma in Shevchenko Studies by the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences. Later, influenced by Fr Ceslaus Sipovich, she started also translating Belarusian poetry. Her first translation from Belarusian was the poem "Na čužynie" by Janka Kupala. Her translated collection Like Water, Like Fire, published in 1971, was the world's first anthology of translations of Belarusian poetry into a western European language. Later she published The Images Swarm Free, a collection of translations of verses by prominent Belarusian authors, including Alés Harun, Maksim Bahdanovič and Źmitrok Biadula. Rich inspired a number of other British people such as Alan Flowers to become involved in promotion of Belarusian culture. Rich…
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Personal life Vera Rich married George Orchard in London in 1957. She died in London in December 2009. Her ashes were buried in Ukraine and in the Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People in London.
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Books Outlines (Poems) London 1960 (printed by W. Ostrowski) Portents and Images: A Collection of Original Verse and Translations (London, 1963). Like water, like fire: Anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day (1971). ISBN 978-0-04-891041-7. The images swarm free: A bilingual selection of poetry (1982). ISBN 978-0-929849-05-8. Image of the Jew in Russian literature: The post-Stalin period (1984). ISBN 978-0-88125-062-6. Poems on Liberty: Reflections for Belarus (2004). ISBN 0-929849-05-1
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Articles Rich, Vera (November 1971). "Byelorussian national consciousness and Jewish tradition – Some examples of soviet editorial policy". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 1 (2): 80–89. doi:10.1080/13501677108577098. Rich, Vera (January 1973). "Heroes and Jews in byelorussian literature". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 3 (1): 80–91. doi:10.1080/13501677308577150. Rich, Vera (20 September 1974). "Vancouver boycott supports Plyushch". Nature. 251 (5472): 180. Bibcode:1974Natur.251..180R. doi:10.1038/251180a0. S2CID 4199394. Rich, Vera (19 February 1976). "USSR: Plyushch says protest". Nature. 259 (5544): 520. Bibcode:1976Natur.259..520R. doi:10.1038/259520a0. Rich, Vera (30 September 1976). "Soviet dissidents: he who would dissident be". Nature. 263 (5576): 361–362. Bibcode:1976Natur.263..361R. doi:10.1038/263361a0. Rich, Vera (9 December 1976). "USSR: bottling up dissent. Reports on recent developments concerning dissidents in the USSR and Eastern Europe". Nature. 264 (5586): 501–502. Bibcode:1976Natur.264..501R. doi:10.1038/264501a0. Rich, Vera (8 September 1977). "USSR: discrediting the dissidents". Nature. 269 (5624): 100. Bibcode:1977Natur.269..100R. doi:10.1038/269100a0. Rich, Vera (24 November 1977). "Leading Soviet dissidents in London". Nature. 270 (5635): 290. Bibcode:1977Natur.270R.290R. doi:10.1038/270290b0. S2CID 41091196. Rich, Vera (15 December 1977). "Stalin's scientific deputy addresses dissident meeting". Nature. 270 (5638): 550. Bibcode:1977Natur.270..550R. doi:10.1038/270550a0. Rich, Vera (12 January 1978). "Shcharanskii may soon be brought to trial-without a lawyer". Nature. 271 (5641): 104–105. Bibcode:1978Natur.271..104R. doi:10.1038/271104a0. Rich, Vera (18 May 1978). "Yurii Orlov suffers two trials". Nature.…