Strutynska, Mariia [Струтинська, Марія; Strutyns'ka, Marija; pseudonym: V. Marska], b 9 September 1897 in Dolyna, Galicia, d 6 May 1984 in Philadelphia. Writer, journalist, translator, and civic figure; wife of Mykhailo Strutynsky. In Lviv she worked as a teacher and was a member of the national executive of the Union of Ukrainian Women (1922–39). She published articles and prose in Lviv periodicals (eg, Dilo, Novyi chas), coedited the union’s biweekly Zhinka (1935–8), and edited the union’s monthly Ukraïnka (1937–9) and the Lviv literary journal Nashi dni (1941–4). In the 1930s she also contributed translations of French literature (eg, Romain Rolland) to the journal Vistnyk. As a postwar refugee and displaced person she lived in Austria and, from 1950, Philadelphia. A founding member of the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile and a member of its presidium, she published articles, prose, translations, and plays in Ukrainian-American periodicals and was a coeditor of Notatky z mystetstva/Ukrainian Art Digest. Published separately were her reportage novel Buria nad L'vovom (The Storm over Lviv, 1944; 2nd edn 1952), the story collection Pomylka doktora Varets'koho (Dr Varetsky’s Mistake, 1964), the play Amerykanka (An American Woman, 1973), and the book of autobiographical stories, memoirs, reminiscences, and diary notes Daleke zblyz'ka (The Distant Close Up, 1975).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]