Halyna Schyjan

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Halyna Schyjan (2013)

Halyna Schyjan ( Ukrainian Галина Романівна Шиян , scientific transliteration Halyna Romanivna Šyjan ; also Haska Schyjan , Гасьҝа Шиян ; born July 23, 1980 in Lviv , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian writer , translator and street photographer .

biography

Halyna Schyjan was born on July 23, 1980 in Lviv into an academic family. After graduating from high school in Pushchino in 1988 in Moscow Oblast and from School 53 in Lviv , she studied Classical Philology from 1996 to 2001 at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv . She is the mother of a daughter born in 2013, lives with her and her husband, a French journalist, in Kiev and travels the world with them.

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As an intensive reader, she founded the language bookstore “Hallnbook” together with her sister in April 1998. After completing his studies and numerous trips, Schyjan initially worked as a translator for the Australian writer DBC Pierre , whose novel " Lights from Wonderland" was published in Ukrainian in 2012. In 2014 she published her surrealistic-existentialist debut novel "Hunt, doctor, hunt", which was created from a sequence of Facebook fragments during a quiet phase of life caused by illness and which testifies to her hedonistic attitude. Jurij Izdryk encouraged her to publish, Natalka Sniadanko put the novel, which was published in a second edition in paperback in 2015, on her personal best list for 2014. She is counted among the provocative writers along with a few other younger Ukrainian authors. For the summer of 2016 she received an invitation to the Literaturhaus Graz. Here and in several other places in Europe, she wrote her novel “Im Zurück”, which was published in May 2019 and received a “ European Union Literature Prize ” on the initiative of the PEN Club Ukraine in 2019 .

Translations

  • DBC Pierre: Lights out in Wonderland (Світло згасло в країні див). From the English. Lviv 2012.

Publications

  • Hunt, doctor, hunt . Novel. Lviv, Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva, 2014, ISBN 9786176790945 .
  • In the back . Novel. Kyjiw, Fabula, 2019. ISBN 978-617-09-5039-0 .
  • several articles in the street magazine "Prosto Neba" (Lviv)
  • Caterpillar (Гусінь), in: Irena Karpa (ed.), Volontery. Mobilizacija dobra. Kharkiv 2014, 132-161. (Short story)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See a more recent Ukrainian interview with the author, “I am in favor of following your own wishes”. [1] and the Facebook page [2]
  2. ↑ http://zaxid.net/news/showNews.do?top5_knizhok_2014_roku&objectId=1335008
  3. ↑ See the note from IHAG, the International House of Authors, Graz [3]
  4. ↑ Haska Shyyan on euprizeliterature.eu, accessed May 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schyjan, Halyna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schyjan, Halyna Romanivna (full name); Шиян, Галина Романівна (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, translator and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Ukraine