Halyna Petrosanyak

Halyna Petrosanyak was born in 1969 in a remote village in the Ukrainian Carpathians.^[1] She graduated in German and Russian studies from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.^[2]

Petrosanyak was among the authors linked to the group known as the Stanislav phenomenon.^[1] She debuted in 1996 with her poetry book Парк на схилі^[2] ("Park on the hill").^[3] A poem from the publication was awarded with the Bu-Ba-Bu "Best Poem of the Year" award.^[1][3] Petrosanyak is also the laureate of Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (2007) and the Ivan Franko Prize (2010).^[2] Her works have appeared in various literary magazines and almanacs^[1] and have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Polish, Russian, Czech and Italian.^[2]

Petrosanyak works as a translator from Czech and German into Ukrainian.^[1] She has translated, among others, the autobiographies of Alexander Granach and Soma Morgenstern.^[2]

In 2021, the author's first novel "Villa Anemona" was published in Ukrainian.^[4][5] Also in 2021, the Ukrainian translation of the novel "Next Year in Jerusalem" by Andrè Kaminski was published.^[6]

In 2022, the essay collection, "Our Neighbour Albert Hoffmann" was published in Ukrainian.^[7][8] Furthermore, the Ukrainian translation of the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke was published in the same year.^[9][10] Also, the poetry collection "Exophonies" was published in 2022 with a foreword by Ruth Schweikert.^[11][12] In the same year, the author attained membership in the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts^[13] and was awarded the Literature Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW-Straelen.^[14]

• Парк на схилі (“Park on the hill”), 1996
• Світло окраїн (“Light of outskirts”), 2000
• Спокуса говорити, 2008
• Екзофонія (“Exophonium”), 2019^[2][3]
• Exophonien. Im Rhythmus der Landschaft ("Exophonies. In the Rhythm of the Landscape"), 2022

• Політ на повітряній кулі, 2015 – essays and poetry
• Не заважай мені рятувати світ (“Don’t hinder me to save the world”), 2019 – short stories^[2][3]