Biography
Born in Boryslav in 1926, she grew up in the Hutsul region in the town of Kuty (at that time on the Polish-Romanian border). Vira Vovk's secondary education was completed in Lviv and Dresden. She studied Germanics, music history and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen. In 1945 she emigrated with her mother to Portugal and in 1949 further to Brazil. She went to Rio de Janeiro where she completed her University studies. Post graduate studies were completed at Columbia University (New York) and Munich University. Vira Vovk received a PhD. Professor of German literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
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