Kateryna Babkina

An outstanding Ukrainian writer, poet, as well as a journalist and screenwriter.

In 2021, she was awarded the Angelus Central European Literary Award and the readers' prize of Natalia Gorbaniewska for a collection of short stories "No one danced like my grandfather", which was published in the translation of Bohdan Zadura. The author of the famous novel "Sonia", the collection of short stories "Happy Naked People" and the play "Hamlet Babylon" staged on the stages of Kiev, Vienna and Geneva.

She published in the Ukrainian and foreign press in: "Esquire", "Le Monde", "Harper's Bazaar", "Art Ukraine", "Buro 24/7" and "The Insider".

Babkina
photo: Tetiana Korobka