Halyna Petrosanyak

Halyna Petrosanyak (; born 1969) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, and translator.

Life Halyna Petrosanyak was born in 1969 in a remote village in the Ukrainian Carpathians. She graduated in German and Russian studies from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

Petrosanyak was among the authors linked to the group known as the Stanislav phenomenon. A poem from the publication was awarded with the Bu-Ba-Bu "Best Poem of the Year" award. Also in 2021, the Ukrainian translation of the novel "Next Year in Jerusalem" by Andrè Kaminski was published.

In 2022, the essay collection, "Our Neighbour Albert Hoffmann" was published in Ukrainian. Furthermore, the Ukrainian translation of the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke was published in the same year. Also, the poetry collection "Exophonies" was published in 2022 with a foreword by Ruth Schweikert. In the same year, the author attained membership in the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and was awarded the Literature Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW-Straelen.

Publications

Poetry

Парк на схилі (“Park on the hill”), 1996 Світло окраїн (“Light of outskirts”), 2000 Спокуса говорити, 2008 Екзофонія (“Exophonium”), 2019 Exophonien. Im Rhythmus der Landschaft ("Exophonies. In the Rhythm of the Landscape"), 2022

Other

Політ на повітряній кулі, 2015 – essays and poetry Не заважай мені рятувати світ (“Don’t hinder me to save the world”), 2019 – short stories