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12 OUR LIFE • July-August 2024 1931 1932 1934 1935 1936 1939 1946 1950 1955 1971 Sets out on her dream trip around the world. To support herself financially, contracts with the Yunan Fu Wholesale Company to shoot short documentary narratives While traveling through Asia, settles in China to work on still photography and film projects and submits short pieces to Ukrainian magazines Dilo, Zhyttia i Znannia, Zhinocha Dolia, Nova Khata, Novi Shliakhy . Some of them will be included in her next two books, Z krayiny ryzhu ta opiyi (From the Land of Rice and Opium) and Daleki obriyi (Distant Horizons). In addition to Olena Kysilevska, also befriends literary critic Mykhailo Rudnytskyi, Lidia Burachynska, Daria Vikonska, and others, with whom Sofia corresponds until 1939, prior to the Soviet occupation of Galicia. Char Marokka (The Charm of Morocco), Sofia’s first book of travels, is published by Shevchenko Scientific Society (Lviv). Travels to Australia, Bali, Java, Malaysia, New Zealand, Siam (now Thailand), and Tahiti, where Queen Marao invites Sofia to adopt the Tahitian way and calls her Teura , or “red bird.” Sofia befriends Matai, a local resident and main actor in F.W. Murnau’s cult film, Taboo (1931), and French explorer Alain Gerbaud, first to circum- navigate the globe on a sailboat. In October, ends her round-the-world journey in New York. Marries Jean-Marie Oudin, a French diplomat. The couple lives in China and Vietnam for 11 years. Z krayiny ryzhu ta opiyi (From the Land of Rice and Opium) is published in Lviv. Sofia visits Galicia for the last time. With the popularity of her travel and magazine writings, she gives readings and visual presentations from her distant travels. Daleki obriyi (Distant Horizons) is published in Lviv. Oudin family returns to Europe, settling in Paris. Family moves to Noirmoutier, a tidal island in the Atlantic off the coast of France. Sofia takes up architecture, designing their house. Jean-Marie Oudin dies. In Noirmoutier, Sofia remains engaged in literature, organizing her own writings, translating them into French. She is assisted by Marta Kalytovska, whom Sofia met at the Shevchenko Society building in Sarcelles, outside of Paris. Begins to write her most important work, a memoir about her formative years and family relations, Knyha pro batka. Z moho dytynstva (Book About My Father: From My Childhood), published posthumously in 1977, in France, with the help of Yuriy Stefanyk and Marta Kalytovska. Dies on February 4 in a car accident while delivering her new short stories and essays, Dvi vahy – dvi miry (Two Weights – Two Measures), to her publisher in Paris. Photos taken by Sofia Yablonska during her travels
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