Volodymyr Yermolenko

born in 1980 in Kyiv, is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist, and writer. He studied at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Central European University in Budapest, completing his PhD in 2011 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Since then, he has been an associate professor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and serves as Director of Analytics at the NGO Internews Ukraine. He is hosting the podcasts »Explaining Ukraine« and »Thinking in Dark Times« and is also editor-in-chief of »UkraineWorld.org«, an English-language multimedia project about Ukraine. As an author, he has received numerous awards, including the Myroslav Popovych Award (2021), the Petro Mohyla Award (2021), the Yurii Shevelov Prize (2018), and Ukraine’s Book of the Year Award (2023, 2018, 2015). His work has appeared in »The Economist«, »Le Monde«, »Financial Times«, »The New York Times«, and »Newsweek«. Since November 2022, he has been President of PEN Ukraine. He lives and works in Kyiv.

Last Update: 2025

Daleki bliz’ki [The Distant, The Close]
Stary Lev
Lwiw, 2015 

Lovec‘ okeanu. Istorija Odisseja [The Ocean Catcher: The Story of Odysseus]
Stary Lev
Lwiw, 2017 

Liquid Ideologies
Dukh i Litera
Kyiv, 2018

Ukraine in Histories and Stories [Hrsg.]
Ibidem Verlag
Hannover, 2020

Eros i Psicheja [Eros and Psyche: Love and Culture in Europe]
Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva
Lwiw, 2023 

Life on the Edge. Ukraine, Culture and War [mit Tetyana Ogarkova]
Dukh i Litera
Kyiv, 2025