Tetiana "Tania" Volodymyrivna Maliarchuk ( uk, Ukrainian: Тетяна "Таня" Володимирівна Малярчук, ger, Tetjana "Tanja" Wolodymyriwna Maljartschuk, born 1983 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 ...

) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German.

Career

Tania Maliarchuk began with several volumes of short stories and novellas: ''Adolfo's Endspiel, or A Rose for Liza'' (2004), ''From Top to Bottom: A Book of Fears'' (2006), ''How I Became a Saint'' (2006), ''To Speak'' (2007), and ''Zviroslov'' (2009). Her first novel, ''Biography of an Accidental Miracle'', was published in 2012. Maliarchuk has been writing in German since 2014. In 2018 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Award for ''Frösche im Meer'' (Frogs in the Sea), an unpublished text she read at the

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. Her Ukrainian work has been translated into German since 2009 (''Neunprozentiger Haushaltsessing'', ''Biografie eines zufälligen Wunders'', both by Residenz Verlag). Some has also been translated into English. The short story "Me and My Sacred Cow" was published in

Best European Fiction ''Best European Fiction'' is an annual anthology of European short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press since 2010. The first four editions were edited by the Bosnian American novelist Aleksandar Hemon, whilst the 2014 anthology was edited by ...

2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon. Tania Maliarchuk lives in Vienna.

Awards

* 2013 — "Kristal Vilenica-2013" (Slovenia) * 2013 – Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Award * 2016 – BBC Ukrainian's Book of the Year 2016 Award *2018 — Ingeborg Bachmann Award

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maljartschuk, Tania 1983 births Living people Ukrainian writers Ukrainian women writers Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winners