Anna Malihon

Anna Malihon (born on June 4, 1984, in Konotop, Sumy region, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and translator. She graduated from Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University (Faculty of Philology, 2006) and from the Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2008).

Her first publication appeared in 2000 in the almanac Slobozhanshchyna. She is a member of Ukrainian PEN and belongs to the literary generation known as the “two-thousanders.”

Malihon is a laureate of several international literary awards and a participant in numerous international literary festivals in Ukraine and abroad. She is the author of the poetry collections Dzvinok u dveri (The Doorbell), Perelyvannia krovi (Blood Transfusion), Pokynutym korabliam (To the Abandoned Ships), Pervisnyi doshch (The Primeval Rain), Burntskin (chapbook), Girl with a Bullet (translated into English by Olena Jennings), Rosarium, as well as the novel Teach Her to Do It and the fairy tale Karolina’s Magic Album.

Her poems and prose have been published in numerous Ukrainian and international literary anthologies and journals, and translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Georgian, Armenian, English, and French.

Since March 2022, she has been living and writing in Paris, France.


 

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