Tetiana "Tania" Volodymyrivna Maliarchuk (Ukrainian: Ukrainian: Тетяна "Таня" Володимирівна Малярчук, German: Tetjana "Tanja" Wolodymyriwna Maljartschuk, born 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German.
Tanya Malyarchuk | |
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| Born | 1983 |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
Career edit
Tania Maliarchuk began with several volumes of short stories and novellas: Adolfo's Endspiel, or A Rose for Liza (2004), From Top to Bottom: A Book of Fears (2006), How I Became a Saint (2006), To Speak (2007), and Zviroslov (2009). Her first novel, Biography of an Accidental Miracle, was published in 2012.
Maliarchuk has been writing in German since 2014. In 2018 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Award for Frösche im Meer (Frogs in the Sea), an unpublished text she read at the Festival of German-Language Literature.[1]
Her Ukrainian work has been translated into German since 2009 (Neunprozentiger Haushaltsessing, Biografie eines zufälligen Wunders, both by Residenz Verlag). Some has also been translated into English.[2][3] The short story "Me and My Sacred Cow" was published in Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon.[4]
Tania Maliarchuk lives in Vienna.
Awards edit
- 2013 — "Kristal Vilenica-2013" (Slovenia)
- 2013 – Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Award
- 2016 – BBC Ukrainian's Book of the Year 2016 Award[5]
- 2018 — Ingeborg Bachmann Award[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Literatur-Auszeichnung: Tanja Maljartschuk gewinnt Bachmann-Preis". Spiegel Online. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- ^ Ava-Matthew, Lois. "Belletrista – Feature: "Canus Lupus Familiaris" by Tanya Maliarchuk". www.belletrista.com. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ ""The Demon of Hunger"". World Literature Today. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "Best European Fiction 2013 | Dalkey Archive Press". www.dalkeyarchive.com. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "BBC – BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2016 awards winners announced – Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "Tanja Maljartschuk bekommt den Bachmann-Preis". sueddeutsche.de (in German). 8 July 2018. ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 8 July 2018.