Ukrainian Literature Showcase

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, whose fiction focuses on corporeality, memory, and identity. Her best-known novel, Amadoka, won Germany's Hermann Hesse Prize and Sweden's Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Prize, and has been staged in Prague, Chemnitz, and Villeurbanne

Novelist, poet, essayist, public intellectual, and translator. He is widely credited with opening Western readers to contemporary Ukrainian literature. His work blends irony and carnival tradition with questions of Central European identity. He is a winner of Germany's Heinrich Heine Prize and the Hannah Arendt Prize

Novelist, reporter, translator, and serviceman, focused on the dignity of ordinary, overlooked lives. The title story of his collection The Ukraine ran in The New Yorker, and his memoir Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns made The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2025

Novelist and essayist who published his debut novel, Cult, at seventeen. His recent fiction, including Medusa's Gaze, turns to memory and the civilian experience of historical catastrophe, and is forthcoming in English in 2026

Novelist working in dark fantasy and horror. The opening volume of his trilogy The Chronicle of the Grey Order won the Chrysalis Award for Best Debut from the European Science Fiction Society. It has become one of the best-selling and most widely read works of contemporary Ukrainian fantasy

Poet, short prose writer, essayist, and veteran. His debut prose book, Hemingway Knows Nothing, sold out its initial print run within weeks and has since sold rights to publishers in ten countries, including the UK, France, and Germany

Novelist and translator whose fiction follows ordinary women transformed by crisis. Her debut novel, Daughter, won Germany's Hotlist Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair and Poland's Natalia Gorbanevskaya Award

Writer, poet, and translator. She was named a laureate of the UNESCO Kraków City of Literature Award for her poetry. Her fiction confronts loss of home, migration, and human rights violations through the eyes of those who lived them

Novelist, poet, and children's book author. Her flash-fiction collection My Women won 128 LIT's International Chapbook Prize. Every protagonist deliberately left unnamed so any reader can recognize themselves in them

Writer and science populariser credited with founding the techno-thriller as a genre in Ukrainian fiction. His novels mix technical precision with high-stakes drama. He uses science as both a plot engine and a test of human morality

Poet, essayist, and journalist whose poems have been translated into more than 35 languages. She won Poland's Ferdinand Ossendowski Award for her translations of Polish poetry. Her poem "Frozen Sea" won the Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize from the Ukrainian Institute London. She writes about memory, identity, and ecopoetics

Novelist, translator, and essayist. Her work circulate from English and German to French, Polish, Czech, and Japanese. She is a Fulbright scholar and French government fellow. Her writing brings ironic lightness and psychological precision to questions of identity

Poet, novelist, musician, and serviceman. His individual poems have been translated into around fifteen languages. He won some twenty poetry slams, including the cross-border championships. His work moves between formal play and blunt physicality, returning often to the body, technology, and transhumanism

Novelist, essayist, and journalist. He received the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for Radio Aphrodite, a documentary novel about an underground resistance radio station. His travelogue Ukraine: Scale 1:1 appeared in a full Czech edition, and his fiction has been translated into German for Austria's Literatur und Kritik

One of the most internationally recognized Ukrainian novelist writing today, translated into more than thirty languages and read across some sixty-five countries. He is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and won France's Prix Médicis étranger for Grey Bees. His breakthrough novel, Death and the Penguin, remains one of the most widely read work of contemporary Ukrainian fiction abroad

Reporter, journalist, novelist, and editor. In her fiction and non-fiction, she excavates obscured histories as a reporter, then using invented stories to approach truths too painful to state directly

Novelist, journalist, and literary editor. She is a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Her Crimean novel There Is a Land Beyond Perekop (2023) became a Ukrainian bestseller, with more than 80,000 copies sold. It has been translated into Slovak and Polish. She is a co-founder of Crimean Fig, a literary project bringing together Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar writers and translators, and a co-editor of its five anthologies

Novelist, essayist, poet, translator, and serviceman, translated into twenty languages. He won the Polish Institute in Kyiv's Joseph Conrad Literary Award and was jointly honoured by the Poland–Lithuania Cooperation and Dialogue Forum and the Jerzy Giedroyc Forum. His fiction works in a tradition of sharp absurdist satire, bureaucratic dysfunction and the borderlands where Ukraine meets the Balkans

Novelist, essayist, and columnist, who has written in both Ukrainian and German since 2014. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2018 and Germany's Jeanette Schocken Prize in 2024, and her novel Forgottenness, which received the Usedomer Literaturpreis in its German edition, appeared in English in 2024. Her work has been translated into multiple languages

Poet, writer, and translator whose work has been presented at the European Parliament and NATO Headquarters in Brussels. His writing moves between Ukrainian and French literary traditions, most notably in the novel Le Coquelicot and the poetry collection Paris Spleen

Award-winning author of twenty children's books and several poetry collections. Two of her books have been selected for Germany's White Raven Catalogue of best children's and young-adult titles, and she held a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship. Her work draws on her love of nature, and some titles have been adapted into theatrical plays and made available in Braille

Poet and translator whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She won the Asian Prize for Poetry and the Diana Der Hovanessian Prize for poetry translation. Her collection The God of Freedom, published in English by Arrowsmith Press, was named one of the Top 10 Ukraine-Related Books of 2024 by The Kyiv Independent

Novelist, essayist, and serviceman. His documentary account, The Language of War, was acquired by Penguin and named a Telegraph Book of the Year. He has shared the stage in public conversation with Salman Rushdie, Art Spiegelman, and Sofi Oksanen, and written for The Financial Times and The Guardian

Journalist, writer, and cultural researcher working in literary reportage. She has presented her work at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs, and co-founded the documentary collective old khata project, dedicated to Ukrainian rural architecture and traditional culture

Journalist, editor, and author working in literary reportage. She co-founded The Ukrainians Media and edits Reporters, a magazine dedicated to longform reportage and documentary photography. Her book The Train Arrives on Time, which carries a foreword by Stephen Fry, has been translated into Lithuanian, with a German edition forthcoming

Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, poet, visual artist, director, and serviceman. His documentary shorts and video-poetry have traveled internationally, with his film-poem Farewell Among the Stars, featuring texts by Oksana Zabuzhko, opening the Read My World festival in Amsterdam in 2016. His play Ghosts in Branches received its first full stage production in London in 2026. His work has been translated into multiple languages, including English, French, and German

Novelist, poet, and translator. He won Czechia's Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award for The Length of Days and Canada's Peterson Literary Fund Translated Book Award for Mondegreen. His fiction turns to myth and phantasmagoria, treating identity as something revealed only in crisis rather than fixed in advance

Poet, translator, and scholar, with her poetry translated into 32 languages. She won Norway's Ordknappen Prize for her collection Ingen planer om å bli and the AAUS Translation Prize for her translation of Ostap Slyvynsky's Winter King. Her writing moves fluidly between poetry, essays, and academic work. It holds queerness, ecopoetics, and questions of exile and belonging in the same frame

Novelist, poet, and translator. She is the first Ukrainian writer to receive the European Union Prize for Literature, awarded in Brussels in 2019. Translation rights to her novel Behind Your Back have sold to publishers in eleven countries. Her writing returns to the body under pressure – desiring, ageing, giving birth – as her key instrument for examining human existence

Novelist, essayist, journalist, translator, and Research Associate in Ukrainian Literature at Leipzig University, Germany. Her 2001 debut novel The Passion Collection became a bestseller in Poland, and she has won Poland's Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize and Austria's Translators Award for her translation of Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher. Her work has been translated into multiple languages, including English, German, and Hungarian

Novelist, essayist, and historian. Her diary Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary, published by Harvard University Press, made her a frequent speaker at Yale, Princeton, and Oxford, where she served as the university's second Ukrainian Writer in Residence. Her fiction traces how large-scale historical rupture reshapes ordinary lives

Poet, prose writer, screenwriter, and film director. Her debut documentary The Earth Is Blue as an Orange won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival (2020), screened at more than 150 festivals worldwide, and is studied in the French school curriculum. Her poetry, short fiction, and children's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages

Author of novels, short fiction, and children's books author. She is a three-time nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her picture book The Owl Who Wanted to Become a Lark was selected for Germany's White Ravens catalogue, and her long running 36 and 6 Cats series has been translated into ten languages, winning a national children's book prize in Latvia

Poet, screenwriter, playwright, librettist, and performance artist. In 2022, she performed her poem Prayer on the Grammy Awards stage alongside John Legend. Her collection Apricots of Donbas won the Kovalev Foundation's International Poetic Award and its French edition released as an audiobook narrated by Catherine Deneuve

Poet and translator, published in more than ten languages. She won France's Prix Alain Bosquet for her translation of Yaryna Chornohuz's poetry and edited the anthology that introduced a generation of contemporary Ukrainian poets to French readers. She works fluently in both directions of literary translation, placing her at the centre of literary exchange between Ukraine and the francophone world

Novelist, poet, essayist, publicist, philosopher, and public intellectual. One of Ukraine's most recognized literary figures worldwide. She holds the French National Order of the Legion of Honor and won Poland's Angelus Central European Literary Prize for The Museum of Abandoned Secrets. Her 1996 novel Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, translated into 24 languages and hailed as a "Ukrainian feminist Bible," turned questions of national identity and female subjectivity into an international literary event