Yemets-Dobronosova Yuliia

Yemets-Dobronosova Yuliia

Writer, essayist

Yuliia Yemets-Dobronosova was born on 08 April 1977 in the city of Sloviansk (Donetsk region). She graduated the Donbas State Pedagogical University (former Sloviansk State Pedagogical Institute) as a Ukrainian philologist and literary scholar. During her studies, she first published her poetry in the Svitovyd magazine, took interest in journalism and cooperated with a range of regional media.

She worked as a correspondent of Sloviansk city council paper; did PhD research in the history of philosophy at Sloviansk State Pedagogical Institute and studied at the IREX Pro Media School of Journalism in Kyiv. She participated in several Smoloskyp Creative Youth Seminars in Irpin and worked as an associate professor at Sloviansk State Pedagogical Institute.

In June 2022, she defended her PhD (Semantic and Existential Specificity of Lesya Ukrainka’s Philosophy Discourse) at the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy in Kyiv.

Since August 2022, she has been teaching philosophy at various universities in Kyiv. Since 2009, she has been an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Pedagogics of the National Transport University.

Since 2002, she began her cooperation with the media such as Knyzhnyk Review, Kalmius, Book Club+, Suchasnist, Kyivska Rus, Business, Ukraina Moloda as a book reviewer.

Since 2003, she has been writing for the Krytyka magazine (with the focus on the Krytyka Community blog during the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014). Since 2004, she has been an expert of the All-Ukrainian Rating "Book of the Year".

Since 1990s, she has written and published 5 books and illustrated two poetry books of her own.

In 2018, she became a finalist of the Ukrainian and British contest Radio Drama UA / UK. Her radio drama Three Minutes of Glory was released on Suspilne Radio (2019) and the Radio of Slovenia in Slovenian translation (2022).

She was a finalist of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar contests Qirim Inciri in the nominations such as Ukrainian Prose About Crimea and Ukrainian Poetry About Crimea. In 2019, she joined the teams of the Vasyl Stus Center and the Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia.

Yuliia Yemets-Dobronosova has been a member of the National Journalists’ Union since 2021.

She was a PEN Ukraine fellow (2022, with her series of essays Verbationary of War ("Дієсловник війни")). The eponymous book is prepared for publishing in 2026 by the Dukh-i-Litera Publishing House.

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