Biography

Origin and education

  • Date and place of birth: July 22, 1985, Ivano-Frankivsk
  • Specialty: philologist (Prykarpattia National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk)

Literary creativity

Poetry collections

  • Lights of St. Elm (Lilya-NV, Ivano-Frankivsk, 2002; print run of 500 approx.)
  • Mustard (Meridian Czernowitz, 2011)
  • Analgesic and hypnotic (Folio, 2014)
  • Spoken for love (KSD, 2017)
  • Doesn't hurt (Pantry, 2021)

Prose and children's stories

  • Lilu after you (Fact, Kyiv, 2008; 2000 copies)
  • Sonya (Folio, 2014)
  • Pumpkin Year (Stary Lev Publishing House, 2014)
  • Hat and Whale (Stary Lev Publishing House, 2015)
  • Happy Naked People (Meridian Czernowitz, 2016)

Non-fiction and workbooks

  • Our birds and what hinders them (Knygolav, 2018)
  • Girl power: small stories of great deeds (co-authored with Mark Livin; Knygolav, 2018)
  • Workbook "Writing habit" (Pantry, 2020)

Novels in stories

  • My grandfather danced better than anyone (Komora, 2019)
  • Snow Warmth (Stary Lev Publishing House, 2022)

Screen creativity

  • 2012 — screenplay of the short film Evil (project "Ukraine, goodbye!")
  • 2013 — directorial debut: short film Yellow Box (open distribution)
  • 2015 — script for Finished (dir. M. Kuzmin):
  • "Best Film" and "Best Screenplay" (Open Night festival, Kyiv)
  • "The best film idea" (KyTy festival, Mariupol)

Translation activity

  • 2017 — translation of Mick Viking's poetry collection Little hygge book (KSD)
  • 2017 — poetry collection Ask the same for all translated into Hebrew (Haver Laet, Israel)
  • 2022 — English-language edition of The Hat and the Whale (Penguin Random House)

Awards and recognition

  • “BBC Book of the Year” (long list) — the novel Sonya (2013)
  • Book of the Year winner — Solodka Darusia (2004)
  • "My grandfather danced better than everyone else" (short list of the summer award "Meeting", 2020)
  • Central European Literary Award "Angelus" — Polish translation of My grandfather danced better than anyone (2021)

Creative guidelines

  • Combines poetry and prose, children's stories and drama
  • Style: subtle psychology, attention to details, experiments with form
  • Themes: family, memory, internal transformations and the search for light in everyday life
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