Sofia Andrukhovych

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Sofia Andrukhovych is one of the most widely read Ukrainian literary voices at home and abroad. Her fiction treats the body as an archive of memory and trauma. Her novel Amadoka (2020) won Germany's International Hermann Hesse Prize in 2024 (shared with translators Alexander Kratochvil and Maria Weissenböck) and has since been staged in France France, the Czech Republic Czech Republic, and Germany Germany.

Amadoka (2020) has become one of the most internationally honoured works of contemporary Ukrainian literature, winning also Canada's Encounter – Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize (2023), and Sweden's Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literary Prize (2025, shared with translator Nils Håkanson). The novel tells the story of the Second World War, linking it to the present day and following the fates of three women across a century of Ukrainian history.

The novel has since migrated to the stage twice over. A production directed by Dušan David Pařízek premiered in Prague in April 2026 before traveling to Germany's Theater der Welt festival in Chemnitz, while a French-language adaptation by Jules Audry opened at the Théâtre National Populaire in Villeurbanne in October 2025. 

Her earlier novel Felix Austria (2014) is set in a vanished multiethnic world on the eve of the Habsburg Empire's collapse, tracing two women bound across class lines by a shared childhood tragedy. It won the Visegrad Literary Award (2017), the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Prize (2015), and the Kovaliv Fund Prize (2015).

Across her work, Andrukhovych returns to the body as a site where identity and history collide, to relationships that cross lines of class and gender, and to nature and the instinctive as counterweights to violence.