Svitlana Pryzynchuk

Svitlana Pryzynchuk (,

Pryzynchuk later studied international law and Chinese language at Kyiv International University, and was particularly interested in the latter. In her junior year of college, she became an exchange student at Tianjin University of Technology and Nankai University in China. After graduating, she pursued a master's degree in art history at Beijing Normal University.

Pryzynchuk returned to Ukraine in 2015. She considered starting a publisher during an internship at a publishing house, but dropped the idea during the Maidan Revolution. In 2019, Safran Publishing attended the Arsenal Book Festival with the flagship translation of Zhuangzi and The Classic of Tea. That same year, Zhuangzi was named one of the best books in 2019 by PEN Ukraine, while The Classic of Tea won a special prize at the Book Forum Lviv.