Maria Matios
Maria Matios (Ukrainian: Марія Матіос; born in 19 December 1959[1]) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist and official. She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovina region, and presently resides in Kyiv. She authored 12 volumes of fiction and poetry, including the novel Sweet Darusia (2003), and the collections of stories titled The Short Life (2001) and Nation (2002).
She has also published Banquet at Maria Matios', the first cookery book written by a contemporary Ukrainian writer, and the controversial Boulevard Novel. Her interests include psychology, ethnography, gardening and flower-growing.
Her prose works have been translated into Russian, Polish, English, Serbian, Belorussian (...Hardly Ever Otherwise).
Her first poems were published when she was fifteen years old. In 1992 she published her first prose in Kyiv Magazine. Maria Matios bases her books on the unique experiences of her family, whose roots go back as far as 1790. She was the winner of the "Book of the Year 2004" prize and of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia).
Matios was placed at number 2 on the electoral list of UDAR during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[2][3][1] She was elected into parliament.[4][5] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Matios was re-elected into parliament after being number 7 in the top 10 of the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[1][6] Matios did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Electoral history of Maria Matios, URK.VOTE
- ^ Wealthy, entertainers, relatives fill party lists, Kyiv Post (2 August 2012)
- ^ Left Hook by Klitschko’s UDAR Party, The Ukrainian Week (24 August 2012)
- ^ Results of the vote count, Kyiv Post ( 2012)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
- ^ General official results of Rada election, Interfax-Ukraine (11 November 2014)
Central Election Commission announces official results of Rada election on party tickets, Interfax-Ukraine (11 November 2014)
External links
- 1959 births
- Living people
- People from Putyla Raion
- Ukrainian writers
- Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize
- Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform politicians
- Petro Poroshenko Bloc politicians
- Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- People of the Euromaidan
- Ukrainian women writers
- Ukrainian women in politics
- 21st-century women politicians