Kateryna Babkina
Kateryna Babkina (born 22 July 1985) is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021).
Kateryna Babkina

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- Name
- Kateryna Babkina
- Born
- 22 July 1985
- Birthplace
- Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Occupation
- Writer
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Fields
- literature · film screenwriting · journalism
- Education
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Institute of Journalism
- Honours
- Angelus Award
- Languages
- Ukrainian · Polish · English
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Kateryna Babkina (born 22 July 1985) is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021).
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Kateryna Babkina (born 1985) is an Ukrainian dramaturge, journalist and poet, among other activities. The dramaturge was born in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Kateryna Babkina is a member of National Writers' Union of Ukraine and PEN Ukraine. The dramaturge is active in film screenwriting, journalism and literature.
Genres include historical fiction and non-fiction. Languages used include English, Polish and Ukrainian. Kateryna Babkina received Angelus Award.
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Biography
Biography
Kateryna Babkina studied at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Journalism. The recorded working language is Ukrainian, Polish and English. The field of work recorded is literature, film screenwriting and journalism. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are non-fiction and historical fiction. Distinctions recorded are Angelus Award.

Kateryna Babkina, Ukrainian writer
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Kateryna Babkina
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Kateryna Babkina • Born — 22 July 1985 • Birthplace — Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine • Occupation — Writer
Career
Career
Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine in 1985. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism and graduated in 2007, going on to work as a freelance journalist. She worked as a contributing editor for Esquire in Ukraine (2012–2014). She also has had articles published in Focus, Business and Le Monde amongst others. Babkina was the first Ukrainian author to have her readings at the Library of Congress, USA. Her book My Grandfather Danced the Best won the 2021 Angelus Award. In 2022, Babkina's novella for children "Cappy and the Whale" was published in translation by Penguin Random House, UK. In April 2023, the e-book "Mom, do you remember?" was published in Ukrainian (Warstwy, Poland). In October 2023, the book "Mom, do you remember?" was published in Polish, translated by Bohdan Zadura. In July 2024, it was published in hardcover in Ukrainian by Bilka publishing house.
Poetry
Poetry
• St Elmo's Fire (2002) • The Mustard (2011) • Painkillers and Sleeping Pills (2014) • Charmed for Love (2017) • Does not hurt (2021)
Novels
Novels
• Sonia (2013) • My Grandfather Danced the Best (2019)
Screenplays
Screenplays
• Evil, as part of the 2013 Kinofest NYC festival
Plays
Plays
• Hamlet.Babylon (2016), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Children's stories
Children's stories
• Harbuzovyi rik (The Pumpkin Year) (2014) • Шапочка і кит (The Hat and the Whale) (2015) • Girls's power (2018, co-authored with Mark Livin) • Snow heaty (2022)
Identity and overview
Identity and overview
The following is established of the heading itself.
Translated books
Translated books
• poetry collection Ask for the same for all (Haver Laet Publishing House, Israel) • novel Sonia (Warsztaty Kultury, Poland) • novel Heute Fahre Ich nach Morgen (Haymon Verlag, Austria) • a collection of short stories Szczęśliwi nadzy ludzie (Warsztaty Kultury Publishing House, Poland) • short story collection Happy naked people (VINTAGEbooks, Cyprus) • novel Nikt tak nie tańczył jak mój dziadek (Warsztaty Kultury Publishing House, Poland) • novella for children Cappy and the Whale (Penguin Random House, UK) • novel Moj deda je plesao bolje od svih (Blum izdavaštvo, Serbia)
Publications and editions
Catalogued output
Publications and editions
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that kateryna Babkina is recorded with the occupation translator. The register further records that kateryna Babkina is recorded with the occupation journalist. Institutional cataloguing adds that kateryna Babkina is recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded with the occupation children's writer. The record continues: kateryna Babkina is recorded with the occupation poet. It is also recorded that kateryna Babkina is recorded with the occupation screenwriter. Institutional cataloguing adds that kateryna Babkina is recorded as a citizen of Ukraine. Recorded with the gender female. It is also recorded that kateryna Babkina was born on 22 July 1985. The record continues: kateryna Babkina is classed in the genre non-fiction. Classed in the genre historical fiction.
Short story collections
Short story collections
• Lilu After You (2008) • Schaslyvi holi lyudy (Happy Naked People) (2016)
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q12080013: Kateryna Babkina
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reference work
- “Kateryna Babkina”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
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- 1.Wicks, Les. Contemporary Poetry of the Ukraine and Australia.
- 2.NEW YORK'S BOWERY POETRY CLUB LIVE IN KYIV. 20 September 2013.
- 3.About the Poets. Poem: International English Language Quarterly. 5. 139–144. 2017. 10.1080/20519842.2017.1271654.
- 4.Nagrody Angelus i Silesius wręczone. TVN24. 23 October 2021.
- 5.Fedyuk, Taras. The first pancake - not hlevkyy: review of the novel Katerina Babkina. BBC News. 12 November 2013.
- 6.With the support of the Open Ukraine Foundation Kateryna Babkina presented Ukrainian film shorts at KINOFEST NYC. Open Ukraine. 16 May 2013.
- 7.BBC. BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2016 awards winners announced.
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Citations
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scholarly publication
The Origins and Features of Ukrainian Literary Metamodernism: An Analytical Survey of Mom, Do You Remember? by Kateryna Babkina, Acta Philologica, 2024Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q12080013: Kateryna BabkinaWikimedia Foundation
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