Marianna Kiyanovska

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Marianna Kiyanovska
Shevchenko National Prize laureate [1]
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Born17 November 1973  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
OccupationProse writer, literary scholar, literary critic  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Marianna Kiyanovska (born 17 November 1973) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and a literary scholar and is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize (2020) and the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2022) for the poetry book The Voices of Babyn Yar. She is a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian PEN.

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Early life and education

Marianna Kiyanovska was born on 17 November 1973 [2] in Zhovkva. [3] She holds a degree in Ukrainian studies [4] from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. [3] She co-created an all-female literary group called ММЮННА ТУГА, together with Natalka Sniadanko, Mariana Savka and others. [5]

Career

She debuted in 1997 with poetry book Reincarnation. [3] Her works have appeared in various anthologies, almanacs and magazines, such as Svitovyd, Suchasnist , Chetver, Kuryer Kryvbasu, Kalmius, Literatura na Świecie , Studium, Akcent and Ukrainian Quarterly. [3]

In 2011, she founded the Big Hedgehog: the first non-governmental literary award in Ukraine dedicated to honoring authors of books for children and youth. [4] She is the coordinator of the Lviv office [4] of Ukrainian Association of Writers, as well as a member of National Union of Ukrainian Writers and PEN Ukraine. [3]

She works as a translator and has translated to Ukrainian works by Salim Babullaoglu, Julian Tuwim, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Adam Wiedemann, Gintaras Grajauskas, and Shota Iatashvili. [3]

Her works have been translated into eighteen languages [6] including English, German and Italian. [3]

Scholarships and awards

She has won scholarships from the Polish Gaude Polonia program (2003, 2009, 2016) and a Slovene CEI Fellowship (2007). [3] In 2011, she was among the finalists for the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Prize and she became the laureate of the International Festival of Poetry Kyiv Laurs. [3] Two years later she was presented with the Polish Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. [4] [6] In 2020, she was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for The Voices of Babyn Yar [6] poetry book, where she lent her voice to the Jewish victims of the Babi Yar massacre. [7] In 2022, its Polish translation received recognition with a European Poet of Freedom Award; later that year Kiyanovska was also awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award. [8]

Publications

Poetry

Prose

See also

References

  1. ↑ Лауреати Національної премії [National Award Winners]. Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Кіяновська Маріанна Ярославівна". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian). ISBN   9789660220744 . Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Kiyanovska Marianna". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Stolica języka polskiego" (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  5. ↑ "Savka Maryana". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "HURI Books". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  7. 1 2 "The Voices of Babyn Yar in the Poetry of Marianna Kiyanovska". Poetry International Online. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  8. ↑ "Laureate of The Zbigniew Herbert Award 2022". Fundacja Herberta. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
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