Hosovska Marta

Hosovska Marta

Translator, publicist

Marta Hosovska translates from English and French, and into English. She works as a columnist and essayist with numerous Ukrainian and foreign media. Her translations and essays have been published in London Ukrainian Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Opinion, Revision, Elle, and Zbruch media. She translates exhibition materials for Solomia Krushelnytska Museum and Ivan Franko House Museum in Lviv, ONFAM in Odesa, Belvedere in Vienna and MoMA in New York.

Marta Hosovska was born on 17 September 1984 in Lviv. She got an MA in theory of literature and comparative studies at Lviv National Ivan Franko University; now she works on a PhD in feminist literature critics. She is the chief editor of the department of literature in translation at the Laboratoria Publishing House, curator of translations at the Krapky Publishing House, and a teacher at the Litosvita platform and the Summer School of Translation at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She also used to teach storytelling at the Business School UCU and theory of literature at Lviv National Ivan Franko University.

Marta Hosovska translates books of different genres for various Ukrainian publishing houses and for the British publishing house Sphere (her cooperation with the latter has been lasting since 2022). She is a participant of international residencies and fellowships and a laureate of a grant from the Swiss organization Looren for her translation of Judith Kerr’s book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2025). She also won the Andrey Sheptytsky Fellowship (2021) and PEN Ukraine Fellowship for her translation of Lois Lowry’s book Number the Stars.