Ukrainian scholar, public and political figure, translator, and writer; Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor.

EDUCATION
Graduated from the Faculty of Radiophysics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

AWARDS AND HONORS
Author of the poetry collection Sonnets and Octaves (1991), two literary monographs, and numerous literary-critical and literary studies articles.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Passionate about literary translation. Maksym Strikha has translated into Ukrainian the poetic and prose works of Dante, Chaucer, Marlowe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Poe, Swinburne, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevenson, Kipling, Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Heredia, Bunin, Bryusov, Gumilev, Mandelstam, Márai, Miłosz, Khadanovich, and other classical and contemporary authors.