Mal’tsovs’ka, Mariia/Mal’covska, Maria

Mal’tsovs’ka, Mariia/Mal’covska, Maria (b. Mariia Paraska, May 5, 1951, Rusky Potok [Czechoslovakia], Slovakia) — belletrist, editor, and cultural activist among Rusyns in the Presov Region. A graduate of Safarik University in Presov (1975), Mal’tsovs’ka worked as editor for the Ukrainian-language magazine Druzhno vpered and published several short stories in Ukrainian. In the early 1990s she welcomed the revival of the Rusyn orientation. Since its forundation in 1991 she has worked on the editorial staff of the Rusyn-language newspaper Narodny novynky and has published in Rusyn two collections of short stories, Manna i oskomyna (1994) and Pid rusyn’skym nebom (1998). Her writings are characterized by a lyric realism that focuses on village life and in particular on the plight of women in modern society. In 1999 she was awarded the Steven *Chepa Dukhnovych Prize for Rusyn Literature.

Paul Robert Magocsi

Entry courtesy of Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture.
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