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Marianna Kijanovska

Ukrainian poet, translator, and literary scholar, recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize. She made her debut in 1997 with the poetry collection Reincarnation; her poems have appeared in various anthologies, almanacs, and journals in Ukraine and abroad. In 2011, she founded Velykyi Yizhak (The Great Hedgehog): the first non-governmental literary award in Ukraine intended to honor authors of books for children and young adults; she is the coordinator of the Lviv branch of the Ukrainian Writers’ Association and a member of the National Union of Ukrainian Writers and PEN Ukraine. Her works have been translated into eighteen languages. In 2020, she was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for the poetry collection The Voices of Babyn Yar, in which she lent her voice to the Jewish victims of the massacre at Babyn Yar; in 2022, its Polish translation was awarded the European Poet of Freedom Prize.
 

 Marianna Kijanovska

Guest program

Rytmus paměti: Maranna Kijanovska – Anna Gruver – Oksana Stomina

Book World Prague 2026

14:00 - 14:50

Větrné mlýny

Czech, Ukrainian

Zázrak jazyka. Kijanovska pracuje s pamětí a rituálním opakováním, Gruver s úsporným, současným výrazem, Stomina s naléhavým obrazem konkrétní situace....

Sunday, 17. 5. 2026