Biography

Biography and Education

She was born in 1973 in Lviv. By education — philologist, graduated from Lviv University and Freiburg University. She works as a journalist and translator from Polish, German and Russian.

During her student years, she was a member of the women's literary group MMYUNNA TUGASociety of lonely graph addicts (Maryana Savka, Marianna Kiyanovska, Yuliya Mishchenko, Natalka Snyadanko, Natalya Tomkiv, Anna Sereda).

Journalism and Press

Published in the following publications:

  • Lvivska Gazeta
  • Saturday Mail
  • Mirror of the week
  • Profile-Ukraine
  • Ukrainian week

Literary Activity

  • 2004 — the novel "Collection of Passions, or Adventures of a Young Ukrainian Woman" was published in Poland and immediately became one of the top ten bestsellers. Also published in Russian ("Collection of passions", M., 2005)
  • 2008 — the novel "The Sterility Syndrome" was published in Russian under the title "Agatangel, or the Sterility Syndrome"
  • 2013 — the novel "Frau Müller is not ready to pay more"
  • 2017 — the novel "The neat prescriptions of Archduke Wilhelm" (VSL), dedicated to the figure of Vasyl Vyshivany
  • 2021 — the novel "The First Investigation of the Empress" (VSL), built on documents from the life of Empress Sissi

Honors and Cooperation

  • Entered the long list of the Angelus Award (2020) for the novel "Frau Müller is not willing to pay more"
  • Works with the crowd-publishing platform Komubook as a translator

Translation Activity

Translates from:

  • German: Franz Kafka, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Gunther Grass, Judith Hermann, Stefan Zweig
  • Polish: Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Yaroslav Ivashkiewicz, Jan Brzechwa
  • Russian: Andriy Kurkov

Public Activity

Member of Ukrainian PEN.