Maria Matios

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Maria Matios (2007)

Marija Wassyliwna Matios ( Ukrainian Марія Василівна Матіос , born December 19, 1959 in Rostoky , Putyla Rajon , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian writer and politician.

Life

Maria Matios grew up in the Ukrainian part of Bukovina . She studied literature at the University of Chernivtsi . Matios published several novels, a short story and a collection of stories and also wrote a cookbook. Her works were u. a. Translated into Russian, Polish and English. In 2013, her novel Darina, the sweetness , for which she received the national prize named after Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine in 2005 , was published in German translation. Her latest work was published in Lviv in 2015 : "Private diary. Majdan".

In 2010, Matios, who lives in Kiev , joined the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms (Ukrajinskij democichnij aljans sa reformy / UDAR) , which Vitali Klitschko co-founded, and ran for second place in the 2012 parliamentary elections . She moved into the Ukrainian parliament on October 28, 2012 with the UDAR, which became the third largest parliamentary group . In the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 , she entered the seventh place on the list of the UDAR allied Bloc Petro Poroshenko .

Works (selection)

  • Darina, the sweet one . Translated from the Ukrainian by Claudia Dathe. Epilogue v. Andrei Kurkov . Haymon, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7099-7006-5 . First Ukrainian 2003.
  • Midnight blossom . Novel. Translated from the Ukrainian by Maria Weissenböck. Haymon, Innsbruck 2015. ISBN 978-3-7099-7163-5 . First Ukrainian 2013.

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SURNAME Matios, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Матіос, Марія Василівна (Ukrainian); Matios, Marija Wassylivna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostoky , Putyla Raion