Home|About us|PEN members|Hanna Yanovska
Hanna Yanovska

Hanna Yanovska

Poet and interpreter

Hanna Tryfonova-Yanovska was born on 1980 in Kharkiv. Known as a poet, translator, and artist, has a linguistic education (graduated from Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2002, defended a Candidate thesis in General Linguistics in 2007). Until 2015 she had been taking various translating and writing jobs, then teaching the English language in Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, as well ad translating for "National Geographic Ukrainian Edition" until the journal was closed due to the war. Since 2015 she works as a freelance translator. Hanna has been taking part in literary and art life of Kharkiv and beyond since 2000, she has published three books of poetry, including the one based on her South African experience – Золотий носоріг / The Gold Rhino (2019). Actually, most of Hanna’s poetry is about real of fictional travels.

Hanna is married, has a daughter. Since the full-scale Russian invasion Hanna with her family had to temporarily leave Kharkiv and lived in Lviv and Belgrade.

 

Bibliography

Books:

  • Volokhata knyha (The Wooly Book) – 2008, Atos, (Kharkiv) Poetry, translations, illustrations
  • Zoloty Nosorih (The Golden Rhino) – 2019, Vydavtytstvo Staroho Leva (Lviv) Poetry
  • Poema 1 sichnia (The Poem of 1st of January) – 2021, Krok (Ternopil) Poetry, illustrations

Collective publications:

  • Zhinochyy pohlyad (Woman’s View) – Folio (Kharkiv), 2009
  • Step, the anthology of Eastern Ukrainian poetry - Piramida (Lviv), 2012
  • Kaise-dra roste, de khoche (Kaise-dra Grows Wherever It Wants) – 2016, Krok (Ternopil). Poetry, translations, essay about Africa.

Literature Translation Activities:

Books:

  • Selina Tusitala Marsh. Fast Talking PI (published in Ukrainian as Tusitala) (2012, Krok, Ternopil)
  • Albert Wendt. From Manoa to Ponsonby Garden (2013, Krok, Ternopil)
  • Karlo Mila. Dreamfish Floating (2013, Krok, Ternopil)
  • Robert Sullivan. Voice Carried My Family (2014, Krok, Ternopil)
  • Robert Sullivan. Captain Cook in the Underworld (2015, Krok, Ternopil) Translation, cover design.
  • Kiri Piahana-Wong. Night Swimming (2016, Krok, Ternopil)
  • Seri Barford. Tapa Talk (2018 Krok, Ternopil)
  • Briar Wood. Rawahi (2018 Krok, Ternopil)

In Journals

  • A collection of Remi Raji – Vsesvit 2014 # 7-8
  • A collection of Chris Mann – Vsesvit, 2012 # 7-8
  • A collection of New Zealand poetry – Vsesvit 2006, #5-6
  • Albert Wendt, Inside Us the Dead

Poetry from other languages, books:

  • Emil Hjorvar Petersen. Refur (The Fox) (2014, Krok, Ternopil) – From Icelandic

Prose from English into Ukrainian (the list is not complete)

  • Thomas Keneally. Schindler’s Ark (2015, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • John Fowles. The Collector (2015, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Adam Johnson. The Orphan Master’s Son (2016, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Erik Larson. Devil in the White City (2016, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Stephen King. End of Watch (2016, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Ruta Sepetys. Between Shades of Gray (2016, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Stephen King. The Stand (2017, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • W. Bruce Cameron. A Dog's Purpose (2017, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Paula Hawkins. Into the Water (2017, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Ali Smith. How to Be Both (to be published in 2017, Fabula, Kharkiv)
  • Elif Shafak. The Architect's Apprentice (2017, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Ali Smith. How to Be Both (2018, Fabula, Kharkiv)
  • Margaret Landon. Anne and the King of Siam (2018, Fabula, Kharkiv)
  • Dan Brown. Origin (2018, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Askold Melnyczuk. Ambassador of the Dead. (2018, Vydavtytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv)
  • Julian Barnes. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (2019, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Carl Sagan. The Pale Blue Dot (2019, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Erich Fromm. To Be or to Have (2020, KSD, Kharkiv)
  • Ernest Hemingway. The Moveable Feast (2021, Vydavtytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv)
  • Matt Haig. Midnight Library (2021, Zhorzh, Kharkiv)
  • Sally Rooney. Beautiful World, Where Are You? (2022, Vydavtytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv)

Children’s Books from English into Ukrainian (the list is not complete)

  • Adam Bestwick. The Amazing Bean Machine (2019, Zhorzh, Kharkiv)
  • Matt Haig. The Truth Pixie (2019, Zhorzh, Kharkiv), The Truth Pixie Goes to School (2021, Zhorzh, Kharkiv)
  • Katherine Applegate. Endling ( parts 1, 2 – 2019, part 3 - 2022, Zhorzh, Kharkiv)
  • V. Wyatt. How to Build Your Own Country (2019 Zhorzh, Kharkiv)