Artem Chapeye

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Artem Chapeye's work has been translated into eleven languages and has reached some of the most visible platforms in English-language letters: the title story of his collection The Ukraine (2018) ran in The New Yorker The New Yorker, the book was shortlisted for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize and reviewed in The Washington Post The Washington Post and The Guardian The Guardian, and his memoir Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns (2025) was named among The Washington Post's 50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025 50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025. 

Across genres, his work returns repeatedly to lives easily overlooked and increasingly sets documentary testimony against speculative invention, using imagined futures to say what direct witness cannot. His most recent novel, T-Happiness (2026), and its predecessor The Weathering (2021) extend that method into fiction shaped by digital-age alienation, memory, and trauma. 

Chapeye was a finalist for the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism (2015) and held both the Central European Initiative Fellowship for Writers in Residence (Slovenia) and the Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators (Austria) in 2013. His translations into Ukrainian include work by Mahatma Gandhi, Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, and Charles Taylor.