Petro Trochanowski Explained

Petro Trochanowski
Birth Date:	10 August 1947
Birth Place:	Parchów, Silesia (southwest Poland)
Other Names:	Petro Murianka
Known For:	Besida
Occupation:	Poet, Editor, Folk musician
Relatives:	Jaroslaw Trochanowski^[1] ^[2]

Petro Trochanowski or Piotr Trochanowski (born 10 August 1947) was born in Parchów, Silesia in the southwestern part of Poland to Lemko parents from Binczarowa. He is the editor of Besida, published in Krynica since 1989. He is a spokesperson for the Lemko ethnic group in Poland and internationally. He is also published under the pseudonym Petro Murianka.^[3] He was the first person who was not an ethnic Pole to win the Stanisław Piętak Prize.

Publications

• Book: Murianka . Petro . Petro Murianka . Graban . Volodislav. Zegadłówna . Zdzisława. Suchy badyl. a Dry Stalk. 1983 . Sądecka Oficyna Wydawnicza . . pl . 69452364.
• Book: Trochanowski . Piotr . Jak sokół wodę z kamienia . Like water from a stone falcon . 1989 . Iskry . Warsaw . pl, rue. 978-83-207-1134-9 . 30750811 .
• Book: Trochanowski . Piotr . Piotr Trochanowski . Mamko kup mi knyzhku . 1995 . SOWy . Nowy Sącz. rue. 978-83-85753-30-8 . 46719953 .
• Book: Murianka, Petro. Planetnyky : davny i novy vershy . Petro Murianka . 2001. Stovarišynâ Lemkìv. rue. 978-83-909730-4-3. 54079749 .
• Book: Trochanowski . Piotr. Piotr Trochanowski . Panteon Zelenoi Lemkovyny = Panteon Zielonej Lemkowyny. 2008 . Gorlytsi : Diecezjalny Ośrodek Kultury Prawosławnej "Elpis" w Gorlicach. pl, rue . 978-83-913884-5-7 . 654490198 .
• Besida (editor)

Honors

• Constantine Ostrogski Prize

External links

• "In the television, Ruthenians are shown as bare-footed peasants living in primitive wooden cottages. They can sing, play on strange old instruments, but never drive Western cars or run enterprises"
• Lemkos
• A small sample of his works
• 2002 Chepa Bear and Aleksander Dukhnovich Prize
• Lemko Revival

Notes and References

1. Krzysztof . Ireneusz . 27 May 1994. The Culture of a Quiet People. Karpatska Rus'. LXVII . 11 . Yonkers, New York .
2. Black. Cathy . 2008 . The Dance of Exile: Jerzy Starzynski, Kyczera, and the Polish Lemkos . . 40 . 2 (Winter). University of Illinois Press. 0149-7677 . 10.1353/drj.0.0022.
3. News: Nicholas . Walton . Lemk people fight for survival. BBC. 8 August 2002 . June 21, 2009.