Kateryna Babkina
Kateryna Bohdaniwna Babkina ( Ukrainian Катерина Богданівна Бабкіна ; scientific transliteration Kateryna Bohdanivna Babkina ; born July 22, 1985 in Ivano-Frankivsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian poet , writer , drama translator.
biography
Kateryna Babkyna comes from the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, which was once shaped by German and Polish culture and today by contemporary Ukrainian writers and intellectuals. She studied journalism in Kiev at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev and after graduating in 2006 worked for the international and Ukrainian newspapers and literary magazines Esquire , Le Monde , Art Ukraine, The Insider, Platforma, Kur'er Krybasu, Sučasnist, Svjatyj Volodymyr, Ukraina moloda, Chetver, Forma (R) t, Radar.
plant
Kateryna Babkina published her first volume of poems while she was still a student. This was followed by stories and poems in various Ukrainian magazines, which were later published as volumes of poetry and essays, and in 2013 a first novel, “ Sonja ”. Poems have already been translated into Polish, Russian, German, English, French and Swedish. Babkina belongs to the generation of authors like Iryna Slavinska or Andrij Ljubka , who grew up, lives and writes without the experiences of the previous Soviet Union or comparison with its everyday life. Like other Ukrainian authors, she drew on numerous travels and encounters. The texts of the lively and committed young writer are often marked by melancholy and irony and occasionally with a touch of early bitterness. In 2017 her translation of Meik Wiking's book "Hygge - an attitude to life that simply makes you happy" was published in Kharkiv.
In 2012 she realized “Ukraine goodbye” under the title “Das Böse” as part of the larger cinema project for young artists. Her second short film "The Yellow Box" from 2013 was initially banned from public performance because of its anarchist political statement, the liquidation of newly rich criminal entrepreneurs.
bibliography
Poems
- The Holy Elm Fire (Вогні святого Ельма). Ivano-Frankivsk 2008.
- Mustard (Гірчиця). Chernivtsi 2011.
- Pain and sleep medication (Знеболювальне і снодійне). Kharkiv 2011.
- Conjuring love (Заговорено на любов). Kharkiv 2017.
prose
- Lilja after you (Лілу після тебе). Kiev 2008.
- Sonja. Kharkiv 2013 = Today I'm going to tomorrow . German by Claudia Dathe. Innsbruck, Haymon, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7099-7227-4 .
- Happy naked people (Щасливі голі люди). Chernivtsi 2016. Polish translated by Bohdan Zadura , Lublin 2017.
- My grandpa danced better than everyone else (Мій дід танцював краще за всіх). Kiev 2019.
Children's book
- The pumpkin year. (Гарбузовий рік. Illustrated by Julija Pylyptschatina). Lviv 2014
- Shapochka and the whale (Шапочка і кит. Illustrated by Julija Pylyptschatina). Lviv 2015
Translations
- Meik Wiking, Hygge. An attitude towards life that simply makes you happy . Kiev 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Babkina, Kateryna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Babkina, Kateryna Bohdaniwna (full name); Бабкіна, Катерина Богданівна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian poet, writer, dramaturge and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivano-Frankivsk , Ukrainian SSR |