Marianna Kiyanovska (born November 17, 1973, in Zhovkva) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and a literary scholar and is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize.
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Marianna Kiyanovska was born on November 17, 1973[1] in Zhovkva.[2] She holds a degree in Ukrainian studies[3] from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.[2] She co-created an all-female literary group called ММЮННА ТУГА, together with Natalka Sniadanko, Mariana Savka and others.[4]
She debuted in 1997 with poetry book Reincarnation.[2] 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.[2]
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.[3] She is the coordinator of the Lviv office[3] of Ukrainian Association of Writers, as well as a member of National Union of Ukrainian Writers and PEN Ukraine.[2]
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.[2]
Her works have been translated into eighteen languages[5] including English, German and Italian.[2]
She has won scholarships from the Polish “Gaude Polonia” program (2003, 2009, 2016) and a Slovene CEI Fellowship (2007).[2] 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.[2] Two years later she was presented with the Polish Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.[3][5] In 2020, she was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for The Voices of Babyn Yar[5] poetry book, where she lent her voice to the Jewish victims of the Babi Yar massacre.[6] 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.[7]
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