Sofia Andrukhovych was born in 1982 in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. She is a writer, publicist and literary translator. She has been publishing prose since 2002 and has since been awarded numerous prizes, most recently with the International Hermann Hesse Prize 2024 for her »Amadoka« epic (together with her translators
born in Kyiv, embarked on her educational journey at the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Institute of Journalism from 2010 to 2014, followed by a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy until 2016 and courses at the Projector Design School. Oliinyk began her professional
Kateryna Mishchenko, born in 1984 in Poltava, Ukraine, is an essayist, translator, and co-founder of the independent publishing house Medusa in Kyiv. She has worked as a human rights interpreter and co-founded the journal for literature, arts, and societal critique, Prostory. Her essays have been published in international journals, anthologies,
Petro Rychlo, born in Ukraine, is a Professor of Foreign Literature and Literary Theory at the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.. His research focuses on 20th-century German-speaking authors, German-Ukrainian literary relations, and the German-speaking literature of Bukovina. Rychlo has gained recognition for his numerous translations into Ukrainian, notably the first
born in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine in 1983, studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv while working as a sound engineer at a radio station and later in a recording studio. As a guitarist, singer, arranger, and sound producer he has been involved in a variety of musical projects.
Sergei Loznitsa was born in the town of Baranavichy in the Belarusian SSR in 1964 and grew up in Kyiv. He studied applied mathematics until 1987 and then worked at the Kyiv Institute of Cybernetics. During this period, he also translated works from Japanese and became interested in film. In
The photographer, artist, and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was born in Kyiv in 1980. She studied German at the Kyiv National Linguistic University from 1996—2002 and then studied Austrian literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna until 2005. She also earned a diploma in documentary photography from Viktor Marushchenko’s photography
born in 1983 in Kyiv, first studied economics in Kyiv and later music and vocal pedagogy. She has been teaching singing since 2013 and has also worked as a radio presenter. Mariana Golovko has been a soloist with Nova Opera since its inception in 2014. She has been a performer
Yevgeniy Breyger, born in Ukraine in 1989, studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism in Hildesheim, and has been a student of the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig since 2012. Breyger received various scholarships and rewards: In 2010 he was the winner at the Treffen junger Autoren, was granted a scholarship
was born in Chernigow in 1976. She worked as a model and studied International Relations in Kiev and at UCLA. She produced a documentary film about her grandmother’s experiences in a concentration camp – as a survivor and critic of the Soviet Union. From 2006-2007 she worked as a project
born in the Ukrainian city of Lviv in 1977, is a doctor of History and wrote about the crimes of Stalinism in the Ukraine. Between 2008 and March 2010, he was head of the SBU Archive (Ukrainian Secret Service) – during the time when the former President Yushchenko decided to
The poet Vasyl Makhno was born in Chortkiv, in the Ukrainian province Ternopil, in 1964. After completing his studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Ternopil, he graduated in literature and worked as a lecturer at the college. In 1999 his doctoral thesis about Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, a prominent representative of Ukrainian
