The Ukrainian Translation Heritage of the 1960s: Back from the Shadow

This article aims to provide an overview of the current state of literary translation in Ukraine (basically from English into Ukrainian) focusing on the periods to signify its flourishing, touching upon the patterns of dissemination and reception, identifying areas of further research as well as highlighting key matters of enquiry. For the purposes of this report, the frame of reference has to be attributed to the 1960s as the site of global extension and major explosion in Ukrainian translations that had for long lagged behind and existed under the dominance of Russian translation school. The research work intends to give a broad outline of contemporary views on the Ukrainian translation heritage of the aforementioned period accentuating on the works of Rostislav Dotsenko, Dmytro Palamarchuk and Yury Lisnyak. It has conclusively been proved that they proclaimed new insights into translation methodology with particular emphasis on the style and accuracy of the translated versions, their intended audience, social value as well as their relation to literary trends in English. The use of comparative method moves to consider the translators' techniques not only in terms of differences between languages but also from the perspective of how these translations have been perceived or assessed.