Oksana Zabuzhko – contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet, and intellectual, author of “Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex” and the essay “Notre Dame d’Ukraine.” A leading feminist and postcolonial voice, her style blends philosophy, emotion, and cultural critique.
📖 Her novel “Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex” (1996) is called “the first bestseller of independent Ukraine.” 🌍 Has lectured at leading universities including Harvard and the Sorbonne. 🖋 In “Notre Dame d’Ukraine” she reintroduced Lesya Ukrainka as a European modernist. 💡 Her writing fuses female experience with postcolonial critique of Ukrainian culture. 🏆 Recipient of many international awards, including the Angelus Prize. 😮 Odd fact: published her first poems at age 12. 😂 Funny: once joked that “half of interviews about my books turn into journalists’ own fieldwork in provocation.”