Kateryna Babkina


Kateryna Babkina is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award.
WWW babkina.com.uaFB kateryna.babkina

Career

Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine in 1985. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism and graduated in 2007, going on to work as a freelance journalist.
She worked as a contributing editor for Esquire in Ukraine. She also has had articles published in Focus, Business and Le Monde amongst others.
Babkina was the first Ukrainian author to have her readings at the Library of Congress, USA.
Her book My Grandfather Danced the Best won the 2021 Angelus Award. In 2022, Babkina's novella for children "Cappy and the Whale" was published in translation by Penguin Random House, UK. In April 2023, the e-book "Mom, do you remember?" was published in Ukrainian. In October 2023, the book "Mom, do you remember?" was published in Polish, translated by Bohdan Zadura. In July 2024, it was published in hardcover in Ukrainian by Bilka publishing house.

Published work

Poetry

St Elmo's Fire The Mustard Painkillers and Sleeping Pills Charmed for Love
  • ''Does not hurt''

Short story collections

Lilu After You
  • ''Schaslyvi holi lyudy''

Novels

Sonia
  • ''My Grandfather Danced the Best''

Screenplays

Evil, as part of the 2013 Kinofest NYC festival

Plays

Hamlet.Babylon, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Children's stories

Harbuzovyi rik Шапочка і кит Girls's power
  • ''Snow heaty''

Translated books