Natalia Belchenko

Natalia Belchenko
Наталія Юліївна Бельченко
Born (1973-01-07) 7 January 1973 (age 51)
Kyiv
NationalityUkrainian
Occupation(s)poet, translator

Natalia Belchenko, also spelled Beltchenko[1] (born 7 January 1973) is a Ukrainian poet and translator.

Early life and education

Natalia Belchenko was born on 7 January 1973 in Kyiv.[1] She completed studies in Philology at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[1][2]

Career

Natalia Belchenko debuted in 1997, with a book titled Sleep Warden.[1] She has published nine poetry collections.[2] Belchenko is a laureate of several awards, including the Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (2000) and the National Writer’s Union of Ukraine Mykola Ushakov Prize in Literature (2006).[1] In 2017 she won a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Gaude Polonia” program.[2][3] Her poems have been translated into German, French, English, Bulgarian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Hebrew.[2][3]

Apart from writing, Belchenko also works as a literary translator, translating from Ukrainian and Belarusian into Russian and from Polish to Ukrainian.[1] She has translated, among others, works by Vasyl Makhno, Marianna Kiyanovska, Olesya Mamchich, Yuriy Izdryk, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz[1] and Bolesław Leśmian.[4] She is a recipient of "Metaphor" Translation Award (2014)[4][5] and placed third in an International competition for the best Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian translations of Wisława Szymborska poetry (2015).[1][2][3]

Belchenko is a member of PEN Ukraine.[3]

Publications

  • Sleep Warden, 1997
  • Transit, 1998
  • Karman imën Pocket of Names, 2002
  • Creature in the Landscape, 2006
  • Ответные губы (Reciprocal Lips), 2008
  • A Wanderer/Fugitive, 2010
  • Zrimorodok, 2013
  • Знаки і знади (Signs and temptations), 2018[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Natalia Beltchenko". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Natalia Belczenko w mieszkaniu Szymborskiej". Fundacja Wisławy Szymborskiej (in Polish). 2022-03-23. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  3. ^ a b c d "Spotkanie z Natalią Belczenko". Nowy Napis (in Polish). 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  4. ^ a b "Belczenko Natalia". Tekstualia (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  5. ^ "Ukrainian poetry woman in Latvia - News -". Open Ukraine: Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-20.