Two years ago I started to translate English poems into the Ukrainian language under the pen-name Nataliya Bessonova

(it's my mum's surname).

It was an enjoyable process, and very soon I translated more than 50 poems of American and English poets.

Two of them  were written by Shel Silverstein (1930-1999),

a talented writer, poet,  musician and artist, who made pictures for his books.

It was my pleasure to know that my translations of the poems "Rain" and "Sleeping sardines"

were included in the first Ukrainian book of Shel Silversten's poems in Ukrainian. 

 

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