Shevchenko National Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 61 (2022) Winner
Natalya Vorozhbyt
ナターリア・ヴォロジビト
Natalya Vorozhbyt
Aliases:
Natalka / Nataliia Vorozhbyt / Natalya Vorozhbit
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1975-04-04 （Unknown）
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Languages
- Ukrainian, Russian
- Residence History
- Kyiv → Moscow → Myrhorod → Oxford
Career
- Occupations
- playwright, screenwriter, director
- Active Years
- 1994-2024
- Affiliations
- Theater of the Displaced, Theater of Playwrights
- Memberships
- PEN Ukraine
- Nominations
- Ukrainian submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Bad Roads)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maxim Gorky Literature Institute | — | Literature | — | 1996-2000 | Russia |
| Iowa Writers' Workshop | — | — | — | — | United States |
| St Hugh's College, Oxford | — | — | — | 2023-2024 | United Kingdom |
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
Literature
Period:
1996-2000
Year of Graduation:
2000
Country:
Russia
Studied literature
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Country:
United States
Studied
St Hugh's College, Oxford
Period:
2023-2024
Country:
United Kingdom
Visiting Fellow and Ukrainian Writer in Residence
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Bad Roads
2017 PlayAn episodic play about the War in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine.
WarDonbasUkraine
Adaptations
- [Film] Bad Roads / Natalya Vorozhbyt (2020)
Translations
- English translation available
Bibliography
- The Life of the Simple (1994)
- The Little Match Girl (1996)
- Superboom and Other Gifts (1997)
- The Screen (1999)
- Galka Motalko (2002)
- What Do You Want, Ukrainian God? (2004)
- Demons (2004)
- I Join (2005)
- The Khomenko Family Chronicles (2006)
- The Grain Store (2009)
- Tak the Rubbish Out, Sasha (2014)
- Maidan: Voices of the Uprising (2015)
- Bad Roads (2017)
- My Mykolaivka (2017)
- Blood Sisters (2019)
- Bad Roads (film, 2020)
- Green Corridors (2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- RealismDocumentary-styleEpisodic structure
- Recurring Motifs
- Horror of warUkrainian identityDisplacement and refugees
Legacy
Prominent Ukrainian playwright known for works on the Donbas war and Russian invasion, with international productions and film adaptations.
Quotes
-
Russian is my language, too. Why should I have to give it up? I love it. I write in it. Protest against myself? I won't do that.
Source: The Moscow Times (2014)
Trivia
- Prefers to be called Natalka professionally.
- Participated in Euromaidan protests.