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Kateryna Kalytko

カテリーナ・カリトコ

Kateryna Kalytko

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1982-03-08 (Vinnytsia)
Nationality
Ukraine
Languages
Ukrainian
Residence History
Vinnytsia, Ukraine → Kyiv, Ukraine → Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Career

Occupations
poet, writer, translator
Active Years
1999-2024
Affiliations
National Writers' Union of Ukraine, PEN Ukraine
Memberships
National Writers' Union of Ukraine (since 2000), PEN Ukraine
Influenced By
Federico García Lorca

Education

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
political science and media
Period: 1999-2005
Year of Graduation: 2005
Country: Ukraine

Awards

Shevchenko National Prize
2023
Work: Orden movchalnyts
Category: 詩集
Organization: Government of Ukraine
Result: 受賞
BBC Book of the Year Award
2017
Work: Land of the Lost, or Little Scary Tales
Organization: BBC
Result: 受賞
LitAccent of the Year
2019
Work: Land of the Lost
Category: 詩
Result: 受賞
Women in Arts Award
2019
Category: リテラート
Result: 受賞
Lviv — UNESCO City of Literature Award
2019
Organization: Lviv City
Result: 受賞
Joseph Konrad-Kozhenowski Literary Prize
2017
Result: 受賞
Vilenica Crystal
2016
Result: 受賞
Metaphora Award
2014
Result: 受賞
Blagovest Award
2001
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Land of the Lost, or Little Scary Tales

2017 poetry

A collection of little scary tales in poetry.

lossfeartragedy of existence
Translations
  • English, German, etc.

Orden movchalnyts

2021 poetry

Order of the Silent Women.

silencewomen

Bibliography

  • Posibnyk zi stvorennya svitu (1999)
  • Sʹohodniśhne zavtrashne (2001)
  • Portretuvannya asfaltu (2004)
  • Dialohy z Odisseiem (2005)
  • Sezon shtormiv (2013)
  • Kativnya. Vynohradnyk. Dim (2014)
  • Bunar (2018)
  • Nikhto nas tut ne znaye, i my – nikoho (2019)
  • Orden movchalnyts (2021)

Translations by Author

  • Tufli do vruhnennya Oskara (2013)
  • Istoriï pro liudey i tvaryn (2013)
  • Srda spivaye v sutinkakh (2014)

Translations of Works

  • Translations into English, German, Polish, Armenian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Italian, Hebrew

Style & Themes

Literary Style
intricate imageryassociativeness of the poettragedy of existence

Legacy

A prominent Ukrainian poet known for intricate imagery capturing associativeness and the tragedy of existence.

Trivia

  • Detests March 8 due to her mother's traumatic birth experience.
  • At age 5, told her grandmother she would never marry.