Natalka Sniadanko

Natalka Sniadanko
Natalka Sniadanko in 2014
Natalka Sniadanko in 2014
Native name
Наталка Володимирівна Сняданко
Born20 May 1973
Lviv, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materUniversity of Lviv; University of Freiburg

Natalka Volodymyrivna Sniadanko (Ukrainian Наталка Володимирівна Сняданко) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and translator. She won the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize in 2011.[1][2]

Biography

Natalka Sniadanko was born in Lviv, Ukraine, where she currently resides and has lived for most of her life.[1] Sniadanko studied Ukrainian language and literature at the University of Lviv and Slavonic and Renaissance Studies at the University of Freiburg.[3] She co-created an all-female literary group called ММЮННА ТУГА together with Marianna Kiyanovska, Mariana Savka and others.[4]

Her debut novel, Collection of Passions (Колекція пристрастей), was published in 2001. She has written seven novels. Her novel Frau Müller Does Not Wish to Pay More was nominated for BBC Ukraine's Book of the Year.[5] Sniadanko's works have been translated into eleven languages, including English, Spanish, German, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Russian.[1][6]

She translates novels and theater plays from German and Polish into Ukrainian.[1][7][8] Sniadanko has translated the works of writers including Franz Kafka, Max Goldt, Gunter Grass, Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz.[3]

As a journalist, her work has appeared in Süddeutsche Zeitung and in translation in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Brooklyn Rail.[6][5] In The New Republic, Sniadanko wrote about the start of the Euromaidan at Maidan.[9]

Sniadanko appeared in the television documentary Mythos Galizien – Die Suche nach der ukrainischen Identität.[10] In June 2020, Natalka Sniadanko was included in the long list of Central European literary awards "Angelus" for the book Frau Müller Does not Wish To Pay More.[11]

Notable works

  • Колекція пристрастей (2001) (Collection of Passions)
    • The Passion Collection, or The Adventures and Misadventures of a Young Ukrainian Lady (2010), translated by Jennifer Croft
  • Сезонний позпродаж блондинок (2005) (Seasonal Sale of Blondes)
  • Синдром стерильності (2006) (Syndrome of Sterility)
  • Чебрець у молоці (2007) (Thyme in Milk)
  • Комашина тарзанка (2009) (Insects' Bungee)
  • Гербарій коханців (2011) (Herbarium of Lovers)
  • Фрау Мюллер не налаштована платити більше (2013) (Frau Müller Does not Wish To Pay More)
  • Охайні прописи ерцгерцога Вільгельма (2017) (Archduke Wilhelm's ordinary exercise books)
  • Перше слідство імператриці (2021) (The first investigation of the Empress)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "NATALKA SNIADANKO Editions". TAULT. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  2. ^ KOTSAREV, Oleh (27 December 2011). "For innovative forms and breaking the stereotypes". The Day (Kyiv). Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Natalka Sniadanko — internationales literaturfestival berlin". www.literaturfestival.com. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  4. ^ "Savka Maryana". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  5. ^ a b "Lit As Last Bastion: Natalka Sniadanko On Suppression, Solidarity & Language In Ukraine". Electric Literature. 2015-08-04. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  6. ^ a b "The Passion Collection, or The Adventures and Misadventures of a Young Ukrainian Lady | InTranslation". intranslation.brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  7. ^ "Natalka Sniadanko". Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  8. ^ "Snyadanko Natalka". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  9. ^ Sniadanko, Natalka (2014-03-07). "I Have Seen Bravery, and Death, in Ukraine". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  10. ^ "Natalka Sniadanko". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  11. ^ Zaxid.net. "Львівська письменниця Наталка Сняданко потрапила до лонг-листа премії Angelus". ZAXID.NET (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-05-15.