Anna Bagriana


Anna Bahriana or Ваhryana is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, playwright, and translator.

Biography

Bahriana was born on March 24, 1981, in the city of Fastiv, Kyiv Oblast. She graduated from the Language Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukrainian language and literature. Following this, she worked as a radio and television journalist. Currently, she is a member of the National Writer's Union of Ukraine, the Association of Ukrainian Writers, and the Slavic Academy of Literature and the Arts.
Bahriana has published seven books of poetry, two collections of plays and three novels: "The Etymology of Blood", "Such a Strange Love This is", and "The Pesterer". She has also compiled and translated an anthology of contemporary poetry from the North Macedonia. Her novel, "Such a Strange Love This is" was translated into Macedonian. Her collection of dramatic pieces, "Plays," has been translated into Macedonian and Serbian.

Books

Ukraine

Poems:
  • The floscule of words.. Poems. – Kyiv.: Prosvita. – 2000. – 94 p..
  • Among lilac dreams.. Poems. – Kyiv.: JUANA. – 2002. – 124 p..
  • Between gods and us.. Poems. – Kyiv.: JUANA. – 2005. – 116 p..
  • Walking a tightrope. Poems, translations. In Ukrainian and Poland. In collaboration whis Voicheh Pestka. Lviv-Radom: Kamenyar. – 2008. – 94 p..
  • Other lines.. Poems. – Kyiv.: Prosvita. – 2009. – 200 p..
  • The spell of love.. Poems. – Luck.: Tverdynia. – 2011. – 84 p..
Prose:
  • The Etymology of Blood. Novel. – Kyiv.: Fact.– 2008. – 156 p..
  • Anna Bahriana about Maria Zankovetska, Olena Teliha, Vanga, Maria Prymachenko, Slava Stetsko: stories. For Children.. – Kyiv.: Grani-T., 2010. – 96 p...
  • Such a Strange Love This is.. Novel-sonata. – Kyiv.: Nora-druk. - 2010. – 208 p...
  • The Pesterer.. Novel. – Kyiv.: Nora-druk. – 2012. – 216 p...
Translations:
  • Risto Vasilevski. The Temple and the Temple still. Poems. Compiler and translator from Macedonian: Anna Bahriana. – Luck.: Tverdynia. – 2011. – 148 p...
  • Dimitar Hristov. Across the border.. Poems. Compiler and translator from Bulgarian: Anna Bahriana. – Luck.: Tverdynia. – 2012. – 64 p...
  • Jeton Kelmendi. On the top of the time.. Poems. Compiler and translator from Albanian: Anna Bahriana. – Luck.: Tverdynia. – 2012. – 40 p...
Performances of plays and libretti:
  • "Beyond Time" at the ERA Drama Theater in 2006 and the Premiera Music & Drama Studio in 2009
  • "Gloria" at the Donetsk National Ukrainian Academic Theater of Music and Drama, 2010
  • "Rhododendron" at the Homin Ukrainian Drama Theater in 2010

Poland

Poems:
  • Create me in your dreams.... Translator from Ukrainian: Voicheh Pestka. – Częstochowa.: Leterackie Towarzystwo Wzaimniej Adoracji "Li-TWA". – 2008. – 39 p..

Azerbaijan

Poems:
  • Two grains of sand. – Translators from Ukrainian: Elchin Iskenderzade, Arzu Huseinova. – Baku.: "Vektor" Nәşrlәr Evi. – 2009. – 72 p.

Bulgaria

Poems:
  • The anchor for two. Translator from Ukrainian: Dimitar Hristov. – Varna.: Slavic literary and artistic Academy. – 2011. – 80 p..
Translations:
  • Two Bahriana's in Eternal and Holy.. – Varna.: Slavic literary and artistic Academy. – 2009. – 112 p..
  • Dora Gabe. Sun, wait!.. – Varna.: Slavic literary and artistic Academy. – 2012. – 112 p..

North Macedonia

Dramaturgy:
  • Plays.. Translators from Ukrainian: Dimitar Hristov, Vasil Mihailov, Ilia Arev, Trajche Kacarov. – Shtip. – 2011. – 120 p..
Prose:
  • Such a Strange Love This is.. Novel-sonata. Translator from Ukrainian: Vera Chornyi-Meshkova. – Skopje.: MATICA. – 2011. – 118 p..
Poems:
  • The tabouret.. Translator from Ukrainian: Vesna Acevska, Vera Chornyi-Meshkova. – Kochani. – 2012. – 48 p..
Translations:

Serbia

Dramaturgy:
  • Plays. Translator from Ukrainian: Risto Vasilevski. – Smederevo.: Arka. – 2012. – 127 p...
Poems:
  • The Scythian woman. Translator from Ukrainian: Vera Horvat. – Smederevo: Smederovo's Poet Autumn. – Meridijani. – 2012. – 80 p..

Belgium

Poems:
  • The anchor : Poems / Translator from Ukrainian: Dmytro Tchystiak. - Brussels: L'Esprit des Aigles, 2012, 40 p..

Honors, awards and prizes

  • The Ukrainian-German International Honchar Prize, 3rd place in the 2008 Crowning the Word competition, and 2nd Prize in the 2008 Smoloskyp Competition for her novel, "The Etymology of Blood."
  • The 2009 "Silver Flying Pen" International Award Literary for her translation of a book of poetry by Elizaveta Bagriana.
  • Winner of the 2009 Marusia Beck Literary Prize for her short story, "Green Borshch."
  • The Award of International Mediterranean Academy.
  • The "Qiriu i Naimit" International Award Literary for specific values of poetry.