Ukrainian
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: Євгенія Володимирівна Чуприна;
pen name
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, Пані Друїдеса (Mrs. Druids); born July 24, 1971) is a contemporary Ukrainian poet, writer, and playwright. She is the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the International Prize, Olesya Ulyanenko; member of the Ukrainian PEN; member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine; and the National Union of Journalists She is the winner of the Vladimir Korolenko Prize. Chuprina is the author of poem collections, ''Твори'' (Works) (1997, 2000) and ''Вид знизу'' (Bottom view) (2002); prose ''Роман з Пельменем'' (Romance with Pelmen) (2000, 2002) and
mashup novel
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, ''Орхидеи ещё не зацвели'' (Orchids have not yet bloomed) (2010).
Biography
Eugenia Volodymyrivna Chuprina was born July 24, 1971, in
Kyiv
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. Chuprina studied at the Faculty of Philology of Kyiv State University.
She is the author of collections of poems ''Твори'' (Works) (1997, 2000) and ''Вид знизу'' (Bottom view) (2002), ''У хаті, де не працює санвузол'' (In the house where the bathroom does not work) (2016), ''У шубі на стиглому тілі'' (In a fur coat on a ripe body) (2017), and ''Великі форми'' (Large forms) (2019). Her prose work, ''Роман з Пельменем'' (Romance with Pelmen) (2000, 2002), became the first Russian-language internet bestseller.
Her works have been published in ''Coast'',
Philadelphia
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; ''Stalker'',
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; magazines ''Нева'',
Saint Petersburg
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; ''Веселка'', Kyiv; ''СТЫХ'',
Dnepropetrovsk
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; ''Радуга'', Kyiv; ''Отражение'',
Donetsk
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; ''Фабула''; ''Лава'',
Kharkiv
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The play ''Цвєтаєва + Пастернак'' (Tsvetaeva + Pasternak) was staged at the modern theater Сузір'я, Kyiv. Opposing copyright, she refused to include copyright for her novel, ''Орхидеи еще не зацвели'' (Orchids have not yet bloomed), which she posted for free on the website "Сетевая словесность" (Network Literature), but a fuller version of this novel, which the author calls "adult", is available. Chuprina has written columns in ''EGO'', ''XXL'', ''Жіночому журналі'' (Women's magazine), and the newspaper ''24''. She worked as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the men's magazine, ''XXL''. She was a literary agent of the writer
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