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 TUGA — Society 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.