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.

Sweden Herald

Award-winning Ukrainian author Sofia Andrukhovych says the most difficult time is now Award-winning Ukrainian author Sofia Andrukhovych says the most difficult time is now

Sofia Andrukhovych's acclaimed epic "Amadoka" has won a Swedish prize. Ukraine is finally being seen and heard, the Ukrainian author says. "I feel deep gratitude towards the Swedes who are attentive and sensitive, who feel empathy," she says.

Le Monde

Sofia Andrukhovych, writer: 'In Ukraine, death has become an integral part of everyday life' Sofia Andrukhovych, writer: 'In Ukraine, death has become an integral part of everyday life'

By Faustine Vincent

he Ukrainian writer explains how the war intruded on Ukrainians' lives and the need to write about Russia's invasion in order to shed a different type of light on the war.

Craft

Sofia Andrukhovych: "Until the last sentence of writing it is always uncertainty" Sofia Andrukhovych: "Until the last sentence of writing it is always uncertainty"

By Olha Skorokhod

Irish Independent

‘The temptation is to forget this terrible war but we must not’ — Ukrainian author Sofia Andrukhovych ‘The temptation is to forget this terrible war but we must not’ — Ukrainian author Sofia Andrukhovych

The author’s novel Amadoka, soon to be published in English, delves into three dark periods of the country’s history: the Holocaust, the Stalinist repression and the Russo-Ukrainian war that began in 2014.

Eurozine

Haka, or the formation of identity Haka, or the formation of identity

By Sofia Andrukhovych

‘There are either heroes or enemies, with no in-between. There is no room for indulgence or softness – just demands, judgments and relentlessness.’ How war makes a taboo of pleasure and the erotic.

Pen Ukraine

‘It is not the right moment to try and understand Russians.’ Sophia Andrukhovych In Dialogue With Orhan Pamuk ‘It is not the right moment to try and understand Russians.’ Sophia Andrukhovych In Dialogue With Orhan Pamuk

On July 8, Sophia Andrukhovych, Ukrainian author and translator, held a conversation with Orhan Pamuk, author and Nobel Prize winner in Literature. This is a transcription of key moments from their conversation.

Documenting Ukraine

A Space Where the Future is Possible: An Interview with Sofia Andrukhovych A Space Where the Future is Possible: An Interview with Sofia Andrukhovych

In this article for Dwutygodnik, culture critic and Documenting Ukraine grantee Anastasia Platonova interviewed Sofia Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer and transaltor. In the following conversation they discuss how the author's perspective and approach to writing have evolved over nearly three years of full-scale war, as well as Sofia's new book.

Ukrainska Pravda

"Ukrainians should not be expected to help Russians deal with their feeling of guilt," Sofiia Andrukhovych "Ukrainians should not be expected to help Russians deal with their feeling of guilt," Sofiia Andrukhovych

By Tetiana Pushnova

Conversation with Ukrainian writer Sofiia Andrukhovych about how the war is changing the social role of the writer and drawing Europe’s attention to Ukrainian literature; how literature can overcome Europeans' war fatigue and prevent the war from becoming normalized.

Chytomo

Sofia Andrukhovych: to survey a large territory, you need to step back in space, time, and emotion Sofia Andrukhovych: to survey a large territory, you need to step back in space, time, and emotion

By Oleksandr Mymruk

In this interview, we discuss Andrukhovych’s work on Amadoka, the importance of personal ties for interethnic understanding, and Ukrainian-Jewish relations.

Chytomo

‘I wanted to write about a time when there will be no more war, when life will go on’: Interview with Sofia Andrukhovych ‘I wanted to write about a time when there will be no more war, when life will go on’: Interview with Sofia Andrukhovych

Kombuk publishing house issued “Catananche” — a new, fourth novel by Sofia Andrukhovych. The author says that after “Amadoka,” she wanted to write about everyday life and create something minimalistic, to tell about a time when there will be no more war and life will go on. We invite you to learn about the peculiarities of the process of writing a new book and the meanings that the author intended to convey.