Kateryna Kalytko, born 1982 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, is an award-winning writer and translator, a member of PEN Ukraine. She is the author of seven poetry volumes, her most recent being Torture Chamber. Vineyard. Home (2014) and Bunar (2018), both bringing her the LitAccent of the Year Prize. Kalytko has also published two books of short stories, M(h)ysteria and The Land of All Those Lost, orCreepy Little Tales, which won the Ukrainian BBC Book of the Year competition and the 2017 Joseph Conrad Literary Prize awarded by the Polish Institute in Kiev – for “writing that raises actual problems, makes you think and expands knowledge about other cultures”. Her selected writings have been translated into more than ten languages. She won the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence in 2015, was a KulturKontakt Austria fellow in 2018 and a fellow in the Reading Balkans program in 2019. She is currently working on her first novel.
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