Sofia Yuriyivna Andrukhovych ( uk, Софія Юріївна Андрухович, born 17 November 1982) is a

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writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...

and

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. The wife of Andriy Bondar, Ukrainian writer.

Life and career

Sofia Andrukhovych was born in

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

, the daughter of

Yurii Andrukhovych Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych ( uk, Юрій Ігорович Андрухович) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Biography In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque ...

. She is married to a Ukrainian writer Andriy Bondar, with whom she has a daughter Varvara, born 10 March 2008. Andrukhovych is a co-editor of ''Chetver'' periodical. In 2004 she received a residence grant from Villa Decius Association in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

where she used to live. She now resides in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

. In December 2014, her novel ''Felix Austria'' won

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's Book of the Year 2014 award. An additional publication inspired by the novel's contents, was a recipe book compiled with

Marianna Dushar Marianna Dushar (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Маріанна Душар) is a Ukrainian anthropologist and food writer, who specialises in the culinary heritage of the Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galician region in eastern Europe. Biography ...

. A Ukrainian-Polish feature film Viddana by director Chrystyna Syvolap was released in 2020. In March 2021, she received the

Women in Arts Award The Women in Arts Award is an award established in 2019 by UN Women Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute, and presented as part of HeForShe Ukraine's annual arts week in March. Only women are nominated for the award; its purpose is to bring atten ...

in literature.

Publications

Prose

* ''Літо Мілени'' (Kyiv, 2002). * ''Старі люди'' (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2003). * ''Жінки їхніх чоловіків'' (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2005). * ''Сьомга'' (Kyiv, 2007). * ''Фелікс Австрія'' (Lviv, 2014). ** English translation ''Felix Austria'' forthcoming March 2024. * ''Амадока'' (Lviv, 2020).

Translations

Manuela Gretkowska Manuela Gretkowska (6 October 1964) is a Polish writer, screenwriter, feminist and politician. She is the foundress of the Feminist Initiative. Biography Manuela Gretkowska was born in Łódź and studied philosophy at Jagiellonian Universit ...

. ''Європейка''. Translation from Polish. *

J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling ( "rolling"; born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and Philanthropy, philanthropist. She wrote ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to ...

. ''Гаррі Поттер і келих вогню''. Translation from English (together with Viktor Morozov].

References

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