​Sofija Andruchovyč

1982

​Sofija Andruchovych is a Ukrainian writer, translator, publicist.

Sofija Andruchovych is a Ukrainian writer, translator, publicist. She was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, a well-known literary city. She is the author of the prose books Лито Милени (Milenino leto, 2002), Старі люди (Old people, 2003), Україны их міжных (Women of their husbands, 2005), Сьомга (Salmon, 2007). In 2014, she published the novel Felix Austria (published in Czech by Větrné mlýny, 2017), which won the BBC Book of the Year award in the same year. In 2015, she became a laureate of the Joseph Conrad Prize. In 2016, Sofia Andruchovych together with Maryana Prokhasko wrote a children's picture book Сузир'я Курки (Constellation of Chickens). In the same year, the book was included in the prestigious White Ravens catalog of international literature for children and youth. In 2020, she published the novel Amadoka in the Lviv publishing house of Staro Lev, for which she won the Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize and the Sholem Aleichem Prize in 2023. Her works have been translated into English, Polish, German, Czech, French, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovak and other languages.