Sofia Andrukhovych | Ukraine

Sofia Andrukhovych (born in 1982 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian writer, translator, and essayist, and a graduate of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv. She is the author of the books Milena’s Summer (2002), Old People (2003), Women of Their Men (2005; Polish edition 2007), Salmon (2007; Polish edition 2009), Felix Austria (2014; Polish edition 2016), Amadoka (2020), and Katananche (2024).

She co-edited the literary journal Chetver and has translated works by, among others, Manuela Gretkowska, J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Tony Judt, Ayn Rand, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Andrukhovych is a recipient of the Polish-German Homines Urbani scholarship and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Gaude Polonia program. She has received numerous literary awards, including the Smoloskyp Publishing House Literary Prize (2001), the LitAccent of the Year Award (2014), the BBC Book of the Year Award (2014), the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Award (2015), the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award (2017), and the Sholem Aleichem Prize (2023).