Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages
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Novel by Maria Matios
Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Village is a novel by Ukrainian writer Maria Matios.[1][2]
- The Guardian called the novel strange and bewitching highlighting how its intimate tragedies illuminate Ukraine’s twentieth-century history.[3]
- Academic research papers praised the translation and noted the work’s established international reception history prior to English publication.[4][5]
- The commentary on its family-saga form and social memory was covered in World Literature Today.[6]
Awards and recognition
- Shevchenko National Prize (2005) awarded to Maria Matios for Sweet Darusya.[7]
- Book of the Year in Ukraine (2004).[8][9]
References
- ↑ "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
- ↑ veroni.lutska (2023-01-31). "10 books about complex history of Russia's attack on Ukraine and Ukrainians". Russia’s war in Ukraine. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
- ↑ Myerson, Jonathan (2022-04-10). "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios – a strange, bewitching Ukrainian saga". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
- ↑ Zviahina, H. O.; Pototska, O. I.; Звягіна, Ганна Олександрівна; Потоцька, Олена Іванівна (2023). "The image of Ukrainian ethnic culture through the context of novels of Maria Matios "Solodka Darusia", "Hardly Ever Otherwise"".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Hoșciuc, Maria (2015). "Maria Matios, Solodka Darusia". Romanoslavica (in Romanian). LI (2): 158–160. ISSN 2537-4214.
- ↑ Yasynetska, Halyna (Summer 2019). "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages". World Literature Today. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
- ↑ Myerson, Jonathan (2022-04-10). "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios – a strange, bewitching Ukrainian saga". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
- ↑ "Феномен Марії Матіос". Library of the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine (Gonchar Library) (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 11 November 2025.
- ↑ Matios, Marii︠a︡ (2019). Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages. Spuyten Duyvil. ISBN 978-1-947980-93-8.