Tamara Horikha Zerня – contemporary Ukrainian writer and volunteer, author of “Daughter” and “The Principle of Intervention.” Her debut novel, rooted in the war in Donbas and her volunteer experience, won the BBC Book of the Year Award (2019). Her style blends documentary realism with literary power.
📖 Her debut “Daughter” became a sensation despite being published by a small press. 🏆 Won the BBC Book of the Year Award in 2019. 🌍 Lived in the UK before the war, but after 2014 became deeply involved in Ukrainian volunteer work. 🖋 Her style fuses journalistic precision, humour, and emotional depth. 💡 Her second book “The Principle of Intervention” tackles propaganda and freedom. 😮 Odd fact: says she never planned to be a writer – “Daughter wrote itself.” 😂 Funny: once joked that volunteers are “people who can assemble a tank on their lap while baking pies.”