Halyna Petrosanyak – a Ukrainian poet, prose writer and translator. Author of The Light of the Outskirts and the novel Ex Libris, laureate of the Herder Prize. Her writing bridges Ukrainian tradition with European influences, and she translates from German.
📖 Debuted in 1996 with The Light of the Outskirts. 🏆 Winner of the international Herder Prize. 🌍 Lived in Switzerland and Austria, gaining a multicultural perspective. 📝 Translates from German, including works by Paul Celan. 📚 Wrote the intellectual novel Ex Libris. 🎓 Graduated in philology from Chernivtsi University. 💡 Her poetry blends minimalism with philosophical depth. 🎤 Performed at literary festivals across Europe. ✨ Seen as one of the poets who renewed Ukrainian poetry in the 1990s. 😮 Early poems often explored silence as the strongest form of speech. 😄 Once joked that poetry is “translating silence into human language.”