Anna-Halya Horbach

Anna-Galya Gorbach lived in Reichelsheim, Germany where she died on 11 June 2011.

Gorbach devoted the last years of her life to publishing the works of her husband, Oleksa Gorbach. In particular, his study "Argo in Ukraine" was published in Lviv in 2006.

In 1995, together with her husband Oleksa Gorbach, she founded the Brodina Verlag publishing house, which published and distributed works by Ukrainian writers in Germany. The Gorbachs initiated the creation of the only specialized department of Ukrainian studies in Germany at the University of Greifswald.

Gorbach is an author of "Epic Stylistic Means of Cossack Dumas" (1950), "Olga Kobylyanska and German Culture" (1967), and "Ukrainian Carpathian Tales" (1975). She is also a publisher of 15 Ukrainian anthologies.

Anna-Galya Gorbach, née Lutsyak (2 March 1924 - 11 June 2011) was a Ukrainian literary critic, translator of Ukrainian literature into German, publisher, and public and political figure. Doctor of Philosophy, member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine (1993), corresponding member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe, winner of the Ivan Franko literary prize (1994), the Vasyl Stus award of the Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia (1993), the Triumph Award (2001), the Olena Teliga (2009), Panteleimon Kulish (2019). A wife of a Ukrainian philologist and publisher Oleksa Gorbach. One of the most famous and active personalities in the Ukrainian cultural and intellectual world of the Ukrainian diaspora.

Anna-Galya Gorbach was born on 2 March 1924 in the Subcarpathian village of Brodina (Southern Bucovina, Romania). Until December 1940 she went to a Romanian school, then she was educated in Germany.