Kateryna Mikhalitsyna ( uk, Катерина Василівна Міхаліцина; born February 23, 1982) is a

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poet, children's writer, translator and editor.

Early life and education

Kateryna Mikhalitsyna was born on February 23, 1982, in

Mlyniv Mlyniv ( uk, Млинів; pl, Młynów) is an urban-type settlement in Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Mlyniv was also formerly the administrative center of Mlyniv Raion, housing the district's local administration buildings, alth ...

. In 2003, she completed undergraduate studies in biology in

Rivne Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the surrounding Rivne Raio ...

. Six years later, she graduated in

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from the

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

. She took on various jobs, then in 2008–2012 worked as an editor and translator at the Astroliabia Publishing House. In 2013, she took on the role of the deputy editor-in-chief of the Old Lion Publishing House, Mariana Savka. In 2014–2015 she took part in Lithuanian-Ukrainian translation studies.

Career

Mikhalitsyna has published three poetry collections and a number of children's books. As a writer, editor and a translator, she took part in various literary projects and events, such as the all-Ukrainian Add Reading! Initiative, Bologna Children's Literature Exhibition, Publishers’ Forum, and was a beneficiary of the Frankfurt Fellowship Programme at the

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. Her poems have been translated into Bulgarian, Polish, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish, Armenian and Greek. Her children's books ''Who grows in the park'' and ''Reactors do not explode. A short history of the Chernobyl disaster'' (written together with Stanislav Dvornytskiy) were included in the

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catalogues of 2016 and 2021, respectively. Mikhalitsyna has translated from English and Polish, including works by

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philology, philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was ...

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, ''The ...

and

Alfred Szklarski Alfred Szklarski (; 21 January 1912 – 9 April 1992) was a Polish author of youth literature. He also published his books under the pseudonyms Alfred Bronowski, Fred Garland and Alfred Murawski. Biography Szklarski was born in Chicago, Illi ...

. She is a member of

PEN Ukraine PEN Ukraine is a Ukrainian non-governmental organization established to protect freedom of speech and authors' rights, promote literature and international cultural cooperation. It is part of the network of national centers of the International P ...

. She lives in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

Publications

Poetry

* ''The Flood'', 2000 * ''Pilgrim'' (self-published), 2002 * ''Shadow in the Mirror'', 2013; ill.: Aliena Semchyshyn

Children's literature

* ''Rainbow Over the Meadow'', 2012, ill.: Yulia Polishchuk * ''Grandma’s Abode, 2013'', ill.: Natalka Haida * ''Meadow Rhyme'', 2015, ill.: Mariana Petriv * ''Who Grows in the Park'', 2016, ill.: Oksana Bula * ''About Dragons and Happiness'', 2016, ill.: Natalka Haida * ''Who Grows in the Garden'', 2017, ill.: Oksana Bula * ''Yas and his Cars'', 2018, ill.: Tetiana Tsiupka * ''Yas and His Great Bikecareer'', 2019, ill.: Tetiana Tsiupka * ''Dmukhavka and Other Furry Little Poems'', 2019, ill.: Yulia Pylypchatyna * ''Tomo and his Whale'', 2019, ill.: Oksana Drachkovska * ''Reactors do not explode. A short history of the Chernobyl disaster'', 2020, co-author: Stanislav Dvornytskiy

References

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