Natalia Belchenko

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Natalia Belchenko
Наталія Юліївна Бельченко
Born (1973-01-07) January 7, 1973 (age 49)
Kyiv
Nationality Ukrainian
Occupationpoet, translator

Natalia Belchenko, also spelled Beltchenko [1] (born January 7, 1973) is a Ukrainian poet and translator.

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Early life and education

Natalia Belchenko was born on January 7, 1973, in Kyiv. [1] She completed studies in Philology at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. [1] [2]

Career

Natalia Belchenko debuted in 1997, with a book titled Sleep Warden. [1] She has published nine poetry collections. [2] Belchenko is a laureate of several awards, including the Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (2000) and the National Writer’s Union of Ukraine Mykola Ushakov Prize in Literature (2006). [1] In 2017 she won a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Gaude Polonia” program. [2] [3] Her poems have been translated into German, French, English, Bulgarian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Hebrew. [2] [3]

Apart from writing, Belchenko also works as a literary translator, translating from Ukrainian and Belarusian into Russian and from Polish to Ukrainian. [1] She has translated, among others, works by Vasyl Makhno, Marianna Kiyanovska, Olesya Mamchich, Yuriy Izdryk, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz [1] and Bolesław Leśmian. [4] She is a recipient of "Metaphor" Translation Award (2014) [4] [5] and placed third in an International competition for the best Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian translations of Wisława Szymborska poetry (2015). [1] [2] [3]

Belchenko is a member of PEN Ukraine. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Natalia Beltchenko". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Natalia Belczenko w mieszkaniu Szymborskiej". Fundacja Wisławy Szymborskiej (in Polish). 2022-03-23. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Spotkanie z Natalią Belczenko". Nowy Napis (in Polish). 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  4. 1 2 "Belczenko Natalia". Tekstualia (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  5. ↑ "Ukrainian poetry woman in Latvia - News -". Open Ukraine: Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
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