Tanya Malyarchuk – contemporary Ukrainian writer, author of “Forgottenness” and “A Biography of an Accidental Miracle.” Winner of the BBC Book of the Year Award (2016), she is known for intertwining history with personal memory, focusing on “small people” and forgotten figures.
📚 Her novel “Forgottenness” (2016) is dedicated to UNR figure Viacheslav Lypynskyi and the theme of memory. 🌍 Has lived in Vienna since 2011, active in European cultural life. 🖋 Early works leaned towards surrealism and fairytale motifs; later shifted to historical/documentary prose. 🏆 Won BBC Book of the Year (2016) for “Forgottenness.” 💡 Also writes essays in German and participates in Austrian cultural debates. 😮 Odd fact: worked as an investigative journalist, giving her prose sharpness and precision. 😂 Funny: once joked that “half of her characters first appear in dreams, then she has to track them down in archives.”