Draft:Kateryna Kalytko

Kateryna Oleksandrivna Kalytko (in Ukrainian: Катерина Олександрівна Калитко; born March 8, 1982, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, and author of poetry and prose. As a translator, Kalytko translates Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian works into Ukrainian. Her own works have been translated into English, Polish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Armenian, Italian, and Serbian. She is a member of The National Writer's Union of Ukraine and PEN Ukraine.

Life
Kateryna Kalytko was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, where she graduated from high school with a gold medal. In 1999–2005, she studied political science and journalism at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Kalytko lives and works in Vinnytsia and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Career
Kateryna Kalytko's works have been published in periodicals, in particular in the magazines such as World-View, Ukrainian Problems, Young Ukraine, the Kryvbas Courier, Radar, and have appeared in anthologies and almanacs, such as Life's Greeting, Granoslov, Beginnings. An Anthology of Young poets (1998), Young Wine (2000), Collection (2001), Ukrainian Poetry from the 20th Century (2001), ''Many Voices. Podil Poetry of the 20th Century (2002), The Best Love Poems. Male Example (2007), Two Tons (2007), Black and Red: One Hundred Ukrainian Poets of the 20th Century (2011), Myakush. An Anthology of Ukrainian Culinary Poetry'' (2012), and others.

At the age of 17, she won the "Granoslov" poetry competition (1999). She is also the laureate of the Life Greetings magazine's contest named after Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, the reader's choice poetry competition from the Young Wine magazine, Smoloskip publishing house's contest, and the Blagovist literary award.

In 2017, Kateryna Kalytko's book The Land of the Lost, or Creepy Little Stories, published by Old Lion Publishing House, was awarded the BBC Book of the Year — 2017 award.

Kalytko's poetry collection ''[https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/nobody-knows-us-here-we-dont-know-anyone/#:~:text=KATERYNA%20KALYTKO's%20sophisticated%20poetry%20volume,the%20ongoing%20war%20in%20Ukraine. Nobody Knows Us Here, and We Don't Know Anyone]'' is dedicated to human psychology against the background of significant historical events. Some of the poems are written in free verse. The collection received the LitAccent of the Year award (2019) in the poetry category.

In 2023, Kalytko was invited to write a text for the annual All-Ukrainian Radio Dictation of National Unity. Kateryna is a co-founder of the Europe Island International Literary Festival in Vinnytsia.

Poetry collections

 * «Посібник зі створення світу» [A Guide to Creating the World] (Vinnytsia: Logos, 1999)
 * «Сьогоднішнє завтрашнє» [Today's Tomorrow] (Kyiv: Granoslov, 2001)
 * «Портретування асфальту» [Asphalt in Portrait] [ Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2004)
 * «Діалоги з Одіссєем» [Dialogues with Odysseus] (Kyiv: Pulsary, 2005)
 * «Сезон штормів» [Season of Storms] (Kyiv: Elektroknyga, 2013)
 * «Катівня. Виноградник. Дім» [Torture Chamber. Vineyard. Home.] (Lviv: Old Lion Publishing House, 2014)
 * Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
 * «Бунар» [Bunar] (Lviv: Old Lion Publishing House, 2018)
 * «Ніхто нас тут не знає, і ми — нікого» (Chernivtsi: Meridian Czernowitz, 2019)
 * In English: Nobody Knows Us Here and We Don't Know Anybody (Washington: Lost Horse Press, 2022)
 * «Орден мовчальниць» [The Order of Silent Women] (Chernivtsi: Meridian Czernowitz, 2021)
 * «Люди з дієсловами» [People with Verbs] (Chernivtsi: Meridian Czernowitz, 2022)

Prose
In 2007, Kalytko published a collection of short fiction, M.hysteria in cooperation with the Kyiv publishing house Fact.

In 2017, Old Lion Publishing House published a collection of short stories titled The Land of the Lost, or Creepy Little Tales.

Translations into other languages
Some of Kateryna Kalytko's works have been translated into English, German, Polish, Armenian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Italian, and Hebrew.

Recognition and awards

 * laureate of the "Granoslov" literary competition (1999);
 * winner of the read poetry festival "Young Wine" (1999);
 * Bohdan-Ihor Antonych "Greetings of Life" award (2001);
 * laureate of the Smoloskip publishing competition (2003);
 * Podil Literary and Art Prize "Crystal Cherry" (2000);
 * Blagovist Award (2001);
 * "Kultrevansh" award (2004);
 * "LitAccent of the Year" award (2014) for the book "Kativnya. Vineyard. Home";
 * the "BBC Book of the Year" award (2017) for the book "Land of the Lost, or Creepy Little Tales";
 * special jury award of the UNESCO City of Literature Award for the poetry collection "Bunar" (2019);
 * "LitAccent of the Year" award (2018) for the book "Bunar";
 * "LitAccent of the Year" award (2019) for the book "Nobody knows us here, and we are nobody".

The Central European Initiative Fellowship for writers.

In September 2016, she received the Crystal Vilenica Award from the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

In November 2017, she received the Joseph Conrad award from the Polish Institute in Kyiv for her Ukrainian prose, which gives light to current issues, forces the reader to reflect, and expands cross-cultural knowledge.

In 2019, she was awarded the Women in Arts Award by UN Women and the Ukrainian Institute as part of HeForShe Arts Week 2019.

In 2023, Kalytko received the Taras Shevchenko Award in the literature category for her collection The Order of Silent Women.

Translation work
Kateryna Kalytko researches and translates contemporary literature from Bosnia and Herzegovina into Ukrainian. Some of her translations include: a series of short stories by Miljenko Jergović, Snizhana Mulych, Semezdin Mehmedinović, Lamija Begagić and others were published in the magazine Kryvbas Courier as part of the author's translation section "Contour Map". Selected poems by Miljenko Jergović and Stevan Tontić appeared in the digital magazine Alarum.

She has published over ten books in translation from Bosnian to Ukrainian.

Her translations in the Kryvbas Courier were recognized with the translation award from METAPHORA.

Audio recordings of works

 * Kateryna Kalytko. Reading from the poetry collection "Torture Chamber. Vineyard. Home." : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJl95E4-Ub0
 * Kateryna Kalytko. "З суто жіночого".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQzDwFRMwM
 * Kateryna Kalytko."За кавою йшлось про буденне...": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AXxmh0CbaI