Lesia Waschuk

Lesia Waschuk is a heritage speaker of Ukrainian who was born in Canada and has had a lifetime of opportunities to act as an interpreter, informally. She is a licensed dentist, regulatory expert, longtime peer reviewer and editorial consultant to a national dental journal. She has written more than sixty articles providing professional guidance on dentistry-related topics. She holds a Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and a graduate certificate in creative writing from the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, and has published several creative non-fiction pieces in the Literary Kitchen Collective anthologies On the Fly and Places Like Home. A committed volunteer in the Ukrainian-Canadian community, she has provided editorial assistance for the publication of English-language translations of classic and contemporary Ukrainian literature and stories from life during wartime written by ordinary Ukrainians. She has been learning the craft of literary translation since 2022.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Oksana Lushchevska, ‘Our Big Imaginary Family’

Contact: lwaschuk@gmail.com


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Crimean Tatars: Eighty Years of Remembrance and Resistance

Issue 2 (2024)

For the eightieth anniversary of the Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars, the London Ukrainian Review dedicates its second issue of 2024 to the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula and its Indigenous people’s ongoing fight for justice.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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The Long Exile: A History of the Deportation of 1944

Issue 2 (2024)

The mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in May 1944 is rooted in Russian settler colonialism which Martin-Oleksandr Kisly traces to the subjugation of Crimea by Catherine II. Eighty years after the grievous crime against the Indigenous people of Crimea, Crimean Tatars are under Russia’s occupation and banned from marking this historic date.

Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, trans. by Larissa Babij
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