Moisei Fishbein (1946–2020) was an award-winning Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator, author of the collections Iambic Circle (1974), Collection without a Title (1984), Apocrypha (1996), Scattered Shadows (2001), Early in Paradise (2006), Prophet (2017), a collection of children’s poetry, Wonderful Garden (1991), and translations from many languages. A collection of his translations of Rainer Maria Rilke into Ukrainian appeared in 2018. He was a recipient of the Vasyl´ Stus Prize, the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, the Order “For Intellectual Courage” (awarded by the journal Yi), and the Omelyan Kovch Award. He was a member of the Ukrainian Center of the International PEN Club and the National Union
