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Kateryna Babkina
Born (1985-07-22) July 22, 1985 (age 39)
OccupationWriter

Kateryna Babkina (Ukrainian: Катерина Бабкіна) (born 22 July 1985) is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021).

Career

Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine in 1985.[1] She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism and graduated in 2007, going on to work as a freelance journalist.[2][3]

She worked as a contributing editor for Esquire in Ukraine (2012-2014). She also has had articles published in Focus, Business and Le Monde amongst others.

Babkina was the first Ukrainian author to have her readings at the Library of Congress, USA.[citation needed]

Her book My Grandfather Danced the Best won the 2021 Angelus Award.[4] In 2022, Babkina's novella for children "Cappy and the Whale" was published in translation by Penguin Random House, UK. In April 2023, the e-book "Mom, do you remember?" was published in Ukrainian (Warstwy, Poland).

Published work

Poetry

  • St Elmo's Fire (2002)
  • The Mustard (2011)
  • Painkillers and Sleeping Pills (2014)
  • Charmed for Love (2017)
  • Does not hurt (2021)

Short story collections

  • Lilu After You (2008)
  • Schaslyvi holi lyudy (Happy Naked People) (2016)

Novels

  • Sonia (2013)[5]
  • My Grandfather Danced the Best (2019)

Screenplays

  • Evil, as part of the 2013 Kinofest NYC festival[6]

Plays

  • Hamlet.Babylon (2016), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Children's stories

  • Harbuzovyi rik (The Pumpkin Year) (2014)
  • Шапочка і кит (The Hat and the Whale) (2015)[7]
  • Girls's power (2018, co-authored with Mark Livin)
  • Snow heaty (2022)

Translated books

  • poetry collection Ask for the same for all (Haver Laet Publishing House, Israel)
  • novel Sonia (Warsztaty Kultury, Poland)
  • novel Heute Fahre Ich nach Morgen (Haymon Verlag, Austria)
  • a collection of short stories Szczęśliwi nadzy ludzie (Warsztaty Kultury Publishing House, Poland)
  • short story collection Happy naked people (VINTAGEbooks, Cyprus)
  • novel Nikt tak nie tańczył jak mój dziadek (Warsztaty Kultury Publishing House, Poland)
  • novella for children Cappy and the Whale (Penguin Random House, UK)
  • novel Moj deda je plesao bolje od svih (Blum izdavaštvo, Serbia)

References

  1. ^ Wicks, Les. Contemporary Poetry of the Ukraine and Australia. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  2. ^ "NEW YORK'S BOWERY POETRY CLUB LIVE IN KYIV" (PDF). 20 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. ^ "About the Poets". Poem: International English Language Quarterly. 5: 139–144. 2017. doi:10.1080/20519842.2017.1271654. S2CID 218835511.
  4. ^ "Nagrody Angelus i Silesius wręczone". TVN24 (in Polish). 23 October 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  5. ^ Fedyuk, Taras (12 November 2013). "The first pancake - not hlevkyy: review of the novel Katerina Babkina". BBC News (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  6. ^ "With the support of the Open Ukraine Foundation Kateryna Babkina presented Ukrainian film shorts at KINOFEST NYC". Open Ukraine. 16 May 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  7. ^ "BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2016 awards winners announced". BBC. Retrieved 17 January 2019.