Biography

Biography

Svitlana Olehivna Talan was born on March 7, 1960 in the village of Slout, Glukhiv district, Sumshchyna, in a family of village teachers.

  • In 1975 she graduated from an eight-year school in the village of Peremoha, continued her studies at Banytsia Secondary School
  • In 1983 she graduated from the Glukhiv Pedagogical Institute
  • At the age of 15, she started working as a freelance correspondent for a district newspaper
  • Worked as a kindergarten teacher and primary school teacher

Since 1989 lives in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region. Married since September 26, 2006.

Literary Activity

Svitlana Talan is the author of novels in the "real stories" genre. The source for the plots is life itself, and the central figure of the works is invariably:

Ukrainian woman is strong, sensual, emotional, who goes through mistakes and challenges, but is always guided by love: for her husband, children, homeland.

Awards and Honors

  • 2011 โ€” the novel "Happiness to those who go further"

  • Winner of the competition "Coronation of words 2011"

  • Award of the Olena Pinchuk Anti-AIDS fund โ€” "For the best novel on acute social topics"
  • Published in 2012 under the title "When you're around" (publishing house Family leisure club)
  • Translated by the Russian author

  • 80,000 copies sold in a year

  • According to the magazine "Focus" and the Accounting Chamber, she was included in the three most popular writers of Ukraine

  • 2012 โ€” the novel "Not ghouls" was awarded at the International contest "Coronation of Words"

  • Published in Ukrainian and Russian in 2013 (publishing house KSD)

  • The novel "My beloved traitors" โ€” published by the publishing house "Teaching book "Bogdan" (Ternopil)

  • The work "Without the past" (Russian. "Without the past") โ€” published in Canada (2013, in Russian)

  • The novel "Split Sky" won a special award "Publisher's Choice" at the "Coronation of Words 2014" contest