Tanja Maljartschuk

Tanja was born and raised in Ivano-Frankivsk and emigrated to Austria in 2011, after living for a number of years in Kyiv. Tanja is the author of five collections of short prose, two novels, a young adult novel, and a forthcoming poetry collection in Ukrainian. Her work has been translated into over ten languages and is widely available in German. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize (Poland and Ukraine) and the Kristal Vilencia Award (Slovenia). In 2016 Tanja won the BBC Book of the Year Award (Ukraine) for her novel Forgottenness, after previously being a two-time finalist for this award for the novel A Biography of a Chance Miracle and the collection Downwards from Above. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from various German, Austrian, and Polish arts foundations, as well as the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Though Tanja continues to write primarily in Ukrainian, she has also been writing creative nonfiction in German since 2014. Her first story authored in German, “Frogs in the Sea,” won her the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the Festival of German-Language Literature in 2018.

Born 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Currently resides in Poland and Austria.