Tanja Maljartschuk

Tanja Maljartschuk (2016)

Tetjana “Tanja” Wolodymyrivna Maljartschuk ( Ukrainian Тетяна Володимирівна Малярчук ; * 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk ) is a Ukrainian writer and journalist who lives in Vienna . She is the 2018 Bachmann Prize winner .

life and work

Author Tanja Maljartschuk signing a book (March 2019)

Maljarchuk studied philology at the University of the Subcarpathian Mountains in Ivano-Frankivsk and then worked for several years as a cultural and investigative journalist in Kiev . In 2011 she emigrated to Vienna.

In 2004 her first book Ендшпіль Адольфо, або троянда для Лізи (" Endgame Adolfo or a rose for Lisa") was published by the Lileja-NW publishing house in Ivano-Frankivsk. In 2006 Згори вниз followed. Книга страхів ("From top to bottom. The book of fears"). The volume of short stories Neunprozentiger Household Vinegar, published in 2009 by Residenz Verlag , was Maljartschuk's first book in German. Her novel Biography of a Chance Miracle followed in 2013 . The novel Забуття (“Oblivion”, 2016) was named “Book of the Year” by the BBC's Ukrainian program .

The author regularly writes columns for Deutsche Welle (Ukraine) and Zeit Online . Her text Russia, my Russia, how do I love you is known .

In her novel Blue Whale of Memory (KiWi, 2019; “Vergessenheit” would be the direct translation of the original title) she fictionally deals with the existence between the chairs in emigration and with the Ukrainian folk hero Vyacheslav Lypynskyj , who in the 1920s was also in Vienna ended up in emigration.

Awards

2013: Kristal Vilenica of the International Literature Festival Vilenica ( Slovenia ) for the story The woman and her fish

2013: Józef Konrad Korzeniowski Literature Prize from the Polish Institute in Kiev
2016: Price Book of the Year by BBC Ukrainian for Забуття (oblivion)
2018: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the German text Frogs in the Sea

Works published in German

Nine percent household vinegar . Stories (original title: Говорити / Hovoryty, translated by Claudia Dathe). Residence, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1512-1 .
Biography of a random miracle . Novel (original title: Біографія випадкового чуда / Biohrafija vypadkovoho čuda, translated by Anna Kauk). Residence, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-1612-8 .
From hares and other Europeans. Stories from Kiev (original title: Звірослов / Sviroslov, translated by Claudia Dathe). Edition FotoTAPETA, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940524-30-0 .
Flooded (Original title: Повінь , translated by Harald Fleischmann). Ottensheim / Donau: Edition Thanhäuser 2016.
Blue whale of memory , Roman, 228 p., Translated by Maria Weissenböck, Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05220-6 .

Web links

Commons : Tanja Maljartschuk - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Tanja Maljartschuk in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and reviews of works by Tanja Maljartschuk at perlentaucher.de
Wolfgang Kühn: Finding personal values in a destroyed world - Tanja Maljartschuk, Ukrainian young writer, at ULNÖ. In: magzin.at. October 14, 2011 .; accessed on July 8, 2018
Sabrina Brugner: Tanja Maljartschuk: “Biography of a coincidental miracle” - everyday heroine with a tendency towards extraordinary miracles. Review. In: sandammeer.at. September 2013 .; accessed on July 8, 2018
Andreas P. Pittler : Tanja Maljartschuk: biography of an accidental miracle. From bad to worse - review. In: CulturMag.de. October 16, 2013 .; accessed on July 8, 2018
Janina Jung: Tanja Maljartschuk on the life of an accidental miracle. A book review. In: buchundmedienpraxis.de. 3rd February 2014 .; accessed on July 8, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ Tanja Maljartschuk: Slumbering shame. In: Die Zeit Online. March 2, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2017 . Tanja Maljarchuk: The prisoners of Russia. In: Zeit Online . November 24, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
↑ Tanja Maljartschuk: Protest by a Ukrainian author: Russia, my Russia, how do I love you. In: faz.net . March 10, 2014, accessed June 25, 2017 .
↑ Richard Kämmerlings: "Salt on our bride" , review of the blue whale of remembrance in the world from February 14, 2019, accessed February 15, 2019
↑ Tanja Maljartschuk wins the 2018 Bachmann Prize. In: Österreichischer Rundfunk . July 8, 2018, accessed July 8, 2018 .
↑ The text was deposited with ORF as PDF, Försche im Meer. Retrieved July 23, 2018 . The reading can be found on youtube, frogs in the sea. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Maljarchuk, Tanja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Малярчук, Таня (Ukrainian); Малярчук, Тетяна Володимирівна (Ukrainian); Maljarchuk, Tetjana Volodymyrivna; Maljarčuk, Tetjana Volodymyrivna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ivano-Frankivsk , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union

[1] Tanja Maljartschuk: Slumbering shame. In: Die Zeit Online. March 2, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2017 . Tanja Maljarchuk: The prisoners of Russia. In: Zeit Online . November 24, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .

[2] Tanja Maljartschuk: Protest by a Ukrainian author: Russia, my Russia, how do I love you. In: faz.net . March 10, 2014, accessed June 25, 2017 .

[3] Richard Kämmerlings: "Salt on our bride" , review of the blue whale of remembrance in the world from February 14, 2019, accessed February 15, 2019

[orf2923278-4] Tanja Maljartschuk wins the 2018 Bachmann Prize. In: Österreichischer Rundfunk . July 8, 2018, accessed July 8, 2018 .

[5] The text was deposited with ORF as PDF, Försche im Meer. Retrieved July 23, 2018 . The reading can be found on youtube, frogs in the sea. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .