Biography

Viktoria Hranetska is a Ukrainian writer, editor, poet, laureate of numerous literary awards and co-founder of an independent publishing house.

Origins and education

She was born on March 24, 1981 in the village of Yurivka, Kozyatynsky District, Vinnytsia Region, in the family of a Pole and a Ukrainian. Since childhood, she wrote poems, fairy tales, stories, published in the district newspaper "Herald of Kozyatynshchyna".

In 2003 she graduated from Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University named after M. Kotsyubynskyi with a specialty of practical psychologist.

Early experience and the path to literature

By 2010, she changed many professions — she worked:

  • waitress,
  • saleswoman,
  • advertising agency,
  • babysitter,
  • a consultant in a music store,
  • proofreader in a newspaper for emigrants in the USA,
  • editor of the cultural column in the regional mass media,
  • literary editor in a glossy magazine.

Since 2010 lives in Vinnytsia, where she began to actively work on prose works. In 2018, together with her husband Vlad Sord, she founded the publishing house "House of Khymer", focused on modern Ukrainian literature.

Literary achievements

  • 2011 — won in the "Coronation of Words" for the novel "Mantra-delusion" (debut work), which was later published in the Family Leisure Club.
  • 2013 — published the novel "BODY™", which entered the finals of the award named after AT. Ulyanenko and the shortlist of the "Book of the Year-2013" rating.
  • 2015 — the novel "Happy", based on a real story, was released. Awarded the "Coronation of Words" special award in the "Grand Novels" nomination.

Also published:

  • short stories and essays in publications "Literary Ukraine", almanac "Express Molodist", bilingual collection "Ukraine within me",
  • took part in the Intermezzo storytelling festival,
  • created an essay "The Ship of Yuriy Yanovsky" for the project "Resurrection of the Shot Renaissance".

Poetry and social activism

Since 2015 — also in the genre of unrhymed poetry:

  • laureate of the VIII All-Ukrainian Poetry Festival "Pedkova Pegasus",
  • awarded at the International competition "Draw me a night" for the poem "Emerald Eyes".

Participant of social and cultural projects:

  • "100 books for rural libraries"
  • "Modern Outrageous Creative Word"
  • "Writer's memories"

Awards

  • All-Ukrainian Literary Award named after M. Kotsyubinsky (2019) — for the collection "Reality Show/Magic Show".

Stylish, experimental, sensitive to form and context, Victoria Hranetska combines personal history with an active position in the modern cultural process.