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Location: Vienna, Austria
Tanja Maljartschuk
Tanja Maljartschuk, born in Ivano-Frankivsk (1983), is an acclaimed contemporary Ukrainian writer with three novels and several collections of short prose and poetry to her name.
She now writes in German as well as Ukrainian, and her work has been translated into more than ten languages.
Her most recent awards are the Theodor Kramer Prize for writing in Resistance and Exile (2023) and the Usedom Literature Prize (2022).
Zenia Tompkins is an American literary translator and the founder of the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation (TAULT).
Her previous work includes the English translation of Maljartschuk’s A Biography of a Chance Miracle (2018).
