Discover contemporary Ukrainian authors. Annotations, plots and literary context for readers who value a new word.
🌾 Roots in rural life and teaching are in her blood — her childhood was among nature and quiet countryside. 📰 Became a freelance correspondent while still in school — literature has been her companion from early on. ✍ Her novels belong to the “real-life stories” genre, featuring characters drawn from life and even dreams. 🏆 In 2011, When You’re Near won a social-issue award and sold 80,000 copies. 💔 Her protagonists are women who, despite mistakes, lead by the power of love. 💬 Often wakes at night and runs to her desk to capture what her subconscious reveals in dreams. 🌟 Awarded an international patriotic medal for her educational and volunteer contributions. 👩🏫 Always returns to people — speaks to youth, serves on competition juries, leads with openness. 📚 First wrote in Ukrainian and self-translated her debut into Russian — for her it's truth, not language, that matters. 🤣 Funny note: she calls herself a “writer granny at night” — because she writes even when everyone else is asleep.