Sofia Andrukhovych

Sofia Andrukhovych
Sofia Andrukhovych in Wrocław, 2015.
Born	17 November 1982 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Occupation	writer, translator

Sofia Yuriyivna Andrukhovych (Ukrainian: Софі́я Ю́ріївна Андрухо́вич, born 17 November 1982) is a Ukrainian writer and translator.

Life and career

Sofia Andrukhovych was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, the daughter of Yuri Andrukhovych. She is married to a Ukrainian writer Andriy Bondar, with whom she has a daughter Varvara, born 10 March 2008.

Andrukhovych is a co-editor of Chetver periodical. In 2004 she received a residence grant from Villa Decius Association in Krakow where she used to live.^[1] She now resides in Kyiv.

In December 2014, her novel Felix Austria won BBC Ukrainian's Book of the Year 2014 award.^[2]

Publications

Prose

• Літо Мілени (Kiev, 2002).
• Старі люди (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2003).
• Жінки їхніх чоловіків (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2005).
• Сьомга (Kiev, 2007).
• Фелікс Австрія, English: Felix Austria (Lviv, 2014).

Translations

• Manuela Gretkowska. Європейка. Translation from Polish.
• J. K. Rowling. Гаррі Поттер і келих вогню. Translation from English (together with Victor Morozov].

References

1. "Forum for Dialogue between Cultures". Villa Decius Association.
2. "BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2014 and Book of the Decade winners named". The FINANCIAL. 13 December 2014.