Marianna Kiyanovska

Marianna Kiyanovska (born 17 November 1973) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and a literary scholar and is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize and the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2022) for the poetry book The Voices of Babyn Yar. She is a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and PEN Ukraine.

Early life and education Marianna Kiyanovska was born on 17 November 1973 in Zhovkva. She holds a degree in Ukrainian studies from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Career She debuted in 1997 with poetry book Reincarnation. including English, German and Italian. In 2022, its Polish translation received recognition with a European Poet of Freedom Award; later that year Kiyanovska was also awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

Publications

Poetry

Reincarnation (1997) Wreath of sonnets (1999) Creation of Myths (2000) Love and War (with Mariana Savka, 2000) Book of Adam (2004) Common Language (2005) Something daily (2008) To EP (2014) 373 (2014) Letters from Lithuania/Letters from Lviv (with Mariana Savka, 2016) The Voices of Babyn Yar (2017)

Prose

Path along the river (2008) – stories