Biography

Biography and Creativity

Kateryna Kalytko (1982) is a Ukrainian writer and translator, author of six poetry collections. Her last collection of poetry is "Kativnya". Vineyard. Dim" (Lviv, VSL, 2014) - received the "Litakcent of the year"* award.

She also published two books of short prose:

  • "Mystery" (Kyiv, Fakt, 2007)
  • "Land of the Lost, or Little Scary Tales" (Lviv, VSL, 2017) — laureate of the BVS Book of the Year 2017 award

Recognition and Awards

  • Prize named after Joseph Konrad-Kozhenovsky (2017)
  • International award Vilenica Crystal (2016)
  • Fellow of the Central European Initiative Fellowship program
  • Laureate of the short prose festival Imbiero Vakarai (Lithuania)

Previously, she also won a number of literary contests:

  • "Granoslov"
  • "Greetings of life" named after Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
  • Contest of read poetry "Young wine"
  • Contest of publishing house "Torch"
  • Literary award "Blagovist"

Translation Activity

Kateryna translates from Balkan languages, in particular works:

  • Milenko Yergovycha
  • Ozrena Kebo
  • Melina Kamerich
  • Nenad Velichkovicha
  • Milety Prodanovich
  • Meshy Selimovich
    and others.

Her translations were noted:

  • prize of the magazine "Kryvbas Courier"
  • translation prize METAPHORA

Translations and International Recognition

The works of Kateryna Kalitko have been translated into:

English, German, Polish, Armenian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Italian and Hebrew.

In 2014, the collection "Gold, myrrh and honey" translated into Hebrew (Anton Paperny) was published in Israel.

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