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Mamchych Olesya

Mamchych Olesya

Poet, translator, editor, cultural manager

Co-founder of the alternative school Berkoshko.

She graduated from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and was a one-year fellow at the Jagiello University (Krakow).

Olesya Mamchych is the author of 5 poetry collections, over 10 children’s books and numerous publications in anthologies and literary magazines in Ukraine and abroad. Her literary debut took place in 1992 with the author’s poetry selection published in the children’s magazine Sonyashnyk.

Her texts have been translated into 14 languages and are studied at the elementary school in accordance with its new program.

Olesya Mamchych is the author of creative writing courses and courses of critical thinking and teaching to reading. For 9 years, she had taught and promoted alternative school education. As a publishing editor, she has prepared over 70 children’s books to being printed out. Many of these have received important professional awards. Since 2022, Mamchych has been working with the editorial team of Polish-Ukrainian online media Posestry. Ukrainian and Polish Literature (a project of Polish Book Institute).

Bibliography

Poetry collections:

  • TumbleGrief ("Перекотиболе"): Pulsary Publishing House, 2005
  • Cover ("Обкладинка"): Elektroknyha Publishing House, 2014
  • The Sun Is on Maternal Leave ("Сонце пішло у декрет"): Smoloskyp Publishing House, 2014
  • Perfect Home ("Ідеальний дім"): written in 2014—2020, never published
  • love is defenseless as a knife ("любов беззахисна як ніж"): Krok Publishing House, 2023

Children’s books:

  • A Pineapple Fell on Us ("А на нас упав ананас"):  Grani-T Publishing House, 2013
  • Olenka the Tyrannosaur ("Тиранозавр Оленка"): Fairy Fountain Publishing House, 2017
  • Who’s Eaten My Pajamas ("Хто з'їв мою піжаму?"): Ranok Publishing House, 2018
  • Sashko the Electrocar ("Електромобіль Сашко"); Ranok Publishing House, 2018
  • Ivanna And the Bathtub ("Іванна і ванна"): Ranok Publishing House, 2019
  • Yasya Will Work As… ("Ким працюватиме Яся"): Ranok Publishing House, 2019
  • OctoSomething ("ВосьмиЩОСЬ"): The Old Lion Publishing House, 2020
  • A Deer Girl Runs Over the Seas ("Олениця біжить по морю"): Portal Publishing House, 2020
  • How to Weep Correctly ("Як правильно ревіти"): Ranok Publishing House, 2021
  • A Funny ABC in Ukrainian History ("Овва як бува. Абетка з історії України"): Portal Publishing House, 2021
  • Fairy Photos ("Казкові світлини"): co-authored with Tanya Horiushyna and Yuliia Turchyna. Scandinavan Digital Library, Stockholm, 2022
  • A Cabbage Ghost ("Привид капусти": Bohdan Publishing House, 2025, work in process

Selected translations from Polish: 

  • Jadwiga Malina, Nie płacz synku, to tylko świat, Wydawnictwo KROK, przekład Olesya Mamchych, Tarnopol, Ukraina, 2023. Ядвіга Маліна. Не плач, синку, це лише світ, Видавництво Крок, Переклала Олеся Мамчич, Тернопіль, Україна, 2023
  • Katarzyna Ryrych, Będę jak Patron. Катажина Ририх. Буду як Патрон (Czytelnia, Konin, 2022; Харків, Віват, 2023)
  • Agata Jablonska. Poetry selection. Агата Яблонська, добірка поезії ("Radar", Kraków, 2024)
  • Justyna Kulikowska. Poetry selection. Юстина Куликовська, добірка поезії ("Radar", Kraków, 2025)
  • Mothers. The Song of Wartime. Матері. Пісня воєнних часів (translation of the libretto for the performance directed by Marta Górnicka, 2023)
  • Wisława Szymborska. Віслава Шимборська (Posestry online media): 
  1. https://posestry.eu/posestry-ukrainska-i-polska-literatura?k=all&t=4440
  2. https://posestry.eu/zhurnal/no-66/statya/cibulya

Selected media to have published the work of the author: 

Suchasnist, Kyiv, Dzvin, Vitchyzna, Odnoklasnyk, "Czas literatury" (Kraków), "European Review of Books" (Amsterdam) etc.  

Selected anthologies:

  • Two Tons ("Дві тонни"). Poetry anthology from the 200s, 2007
  • Red and Black ("Червоне і чорне"). Anthology of Ukrainian female poets from the 20th century, 2011
  • Amidst Sirens. New Poetry from the War ("Поміж сирен. Нові вірші з війни"). Edited by Ostap Slyvynsky. Kharkiv, Vivat Publishig House, 2023
  • The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets — An Anthology, 2018 (trans. by Anatoly Kudriavytsky)
  • Wschód — Zachód. Wiersze z Ukrainy i dla Ukrainy, red. i tłum. Aneta Kamińska, Pobocza Peryferii, Miejskie Centrum Kultury, Bydgoszcz 2014
  • Jauna Gaita, № 277, vasara 2014, USA (trans. by Jannis Elsbergs)
  • Chronicle of the Witnesses. Nine Months of Ukrainian Resistance ("Літопис самовидців. Дев'ять місяців українського спротиву"): Komora Publishing House, 2014
  • Encounters. New poems from Ukraine and Poland (Mondrala Press, Warsaw, 2024)
  • Encuentros. Cien poemas de Ucrania y Polonia (Instytut Literatury, Krakow, 2022)
  • Poeti d’Ucraina a cura di Alessandro Achilli e Yaryna Grusha Possamai (Mondadori, Milano, 2022)
  • Întălniri. Poezii din Ucraina și Polonia (Editura Tracus Arte, București, 2022)
  • Kas rabelen välja sellest tusast? (Astorid, 2025. Edited and translated into Estonian by Anna Verschik)