Babkina Kateryna

Kateryna Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1985.

She's the author of four poetry collections (Lights of Saint Elm, 2002, The Mustard, 2011, Painkillers and Sleeping pills, 2014, Charmed for Love, 2017, Does not hurt, 2021), a novel (Sonia, 2013), a novel in short stories (My Grandfather Danced the Best, 2019) and two collections of stories (Lilu after you, 2008 and Happy naked people, 2016). She has also written books for kids (The Pumpkin year, The Hat and the Whale, The Snow Warm and Girls Power (the last co-authored with Mark Livin), which are extremely popular in Ukraine. Kateryna was the first ukrainian author to be invited to have readings in the Library of Congress, Washington, USA.

Her writings have been translated into English, Swedish, Polish, German, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Romanian, Chinese, Viethnamiese, Czech and Greek. Her plays were staged in Kyiv, Vienna and Geneva.

Kateryna Babkina has written for Esquire Ukraine, Le Monde, Harper's Bazaar and others medias and is still doing that. Her poetry was published in a number of anthologies and almanacs (The Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review (USA), Poem (UK) etc)

In 2021 Kateryna Babkina won the Angelus Central European Literature Award for the My grandfather danced better than anyone else published in the Polish language.

There are several short movies based on Kateryna Babkina's stories. In 2016 a short film by her script was scrinned at Cannes Film Festival in young director's selection. The movie "Crazy" after Kateryna Babkina’s script got the Best Film and Best Script award at Open Night Festival (2016).