Denysenko Larysa
Born on 17 June 1973, Larysa is a Ukrainian prose writer, lawyer, public activist, host of live and author’s programs on Hromadske Radio.
She is a public human rights activist and feminist, supporting and representing campaigns against discrimination. Larysa is the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Tolerance in Ukraine.
Ambassador of the International Film Festival Children KinoFest – 2018.
Larysa curates projects providing pro bono legal aid and develops projects addressing education in human rights for children and teachers.
In the course of the few years, along with Iryna Slavinska, she had been curating Lviv Publishers’ Forum special project Woman in the Topic.
Author of an innovative concept for teaching law with the help of author’s fairy-tales, project Lawprimer. Editor-in-chief of the ABC in Law, a human rights magazine for young adults.
Larysa mastered the Ukrainian language at the age of 23 when she started working at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. She graduated from Department of Law at the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, lawmaking course at the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands.
She writes columns, short stories and essays for magazines (Zhensky Zhurnal, Elle Ukraine, Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine, Domashny Ochag. Ukraina, etc.) as well as for business weeklies (Novoye Vremya, Profile, Ukrainska Pravda, Deutsche Welle, etc.).
She was an author and host of the culturological program Document on the 1+1 TV channel for five years.
Larysa Denysenko was awarded with Ukraine’s Supreme Court medal for Fidelity to Law.
Member of the Executive Board of PEN Ukraine.
Lives in Kyiv.
Bibliography
Toys Made of Flesh and Blood ("Забавки з плоті та крові", 2004, Calvaria Publishing House).
Cinnamon Tastes of Coffee ("Кавовий присмак кориці", 2005, Calvaria Publishing House).
Idiots Inc. ("Корпорація ідіотів", 2006, Nora-Druk Publishing House).
Dances with Masks ("Танці в масках", 2006, Nora-Druk Publishing House).
24:33:42 (2007, Nora-Druk Publishing House).
False Concerns, or Life by Murderers’ Schedule ("Помилкові переймання, або життя за розкладом вбивць", 2007, Nora-Druk Publishing House).
Liz and Tsyutsa P. ("Ліза та Цюця П.", Kyiv: Grani-Т, 2007, Contemporary Children’s Prose series).
The Sarabande of Sara’s Band ("Сарабанда банди Сари", 2008, Nora Druk Publishing House).
Echo: My Life from the Dead to the Deceased Grandfather ("Відлуння: моє життя від померлого до загиблого діда", KSD Publishing House, 2012).
Kaleidoscope of Time ("Калейдоскоп часу", KSD Publishing House, 2013).
New Old Elder Woman ("Нова стара баба", KSD Publishing House, 2013).
Billing Account ("Розрахунковий рахунок", Urinkom-Inter Publishing House, 2013).
Against Violence. About Us ("ПРОти НАСильства", 2016).
Liza and Tsyutsa P. Meet Again ("Ліза та Цюця П. зустрічаються", Kyiv: Grani-T, 2008, Contemporary Children’s Prose series).
Larysa Denysenko about Angelina Isadora Duncan, Maksym Rylsky, Igor Stravinsky, Astrid Lindgren, John Christopher Depp II ("Лариса Денисенко про Анжеліну Ісідору Дункан, Максима Рильського, Ігоря Стравінського, Астрід Ліндґрен, Джонні Хрістофера Деппа ІІ", Kyiv: Grani-T, 2008, Life of Prominent Children series).
Maya and Her Moms ("Майя та її мами", Vydavnytstvo Publishing House, 2017).
Happy-go-lucky ("Усміхаки", The Old Lion Publishing House, 2018).
The Children of Air-Raid Alerts ("Діти повітряних тривог", Vydavnytstvo Publishing House, 2022).