Yuliia Iliukha

Yuliia Anatoliivna Iliukha, sometimes transliterated as Yulia Ilukha or Yuliya Iliukha, is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, journalist and volunteer from Kharkiv Oblast.
She is the author of the novels My Women, Skhidnyi syndrom, and Zero and several series of children's books.

Awards and honours

Oles Honchar International Ukrainian German Literary Prize, small prose category.
BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year of the Year 2024 for My Women
Winner of 128 LIT’s 2023 International Chapbook Prize
Rotahorn‑Literaturpreis, sponsor’s prize for excerpts from My Women, Austria, 2024.

Children's literature

In 2023 she launched a children’s detective series about a Kyiv schoolboy, Sashko Siryi: Persha sprava Sashka Siroho. Zlochyn na milion. The First Case of Sashko Siryi: A Million‑Hryvnia Crime) and Druha sprava Sashka Siroho. Rodyna dlia niani, The Second Case of Sashko Siryi: A Family for the Nanny). These books mix mystery plots with themes of friendship, family and social responsibility.