Kateryna Babkina | Ukraine

(b. 1985 in Ivano-Frankivsk) – a well-known Ukrainian writer, journalist, screenwriter and cultural manager. She has published several books of poetry, debuting with St.Elmo’s fires (2002), the novel “Sonia” (nominated for the Ukrainian BBC Book of the Year 2013), a collection of short stories and books for children. She also writes screenplays for films and has written the play “Hamlet Babylon”, which was performed in Kiev, Geneva and Vienna. Her works have been translated into English, Czech, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Romanian, Russian and Hebrew. Workshops of Culture have published her short stories “Szczęsliwi Nadzy Ludzie / “Happy Naked People” (2018) and the novel “Sonia” (2018).