Tetjana Maljarchuk: Wordless Prose

Novelist, journalist and feuilleton writer Tetiana Malarczuk was born in 1983. She grew up in Ivano-Frankivsk, but has been living in Vienna since 2011. Her novel Zabuttia [Oblivion] (2016) was selected as the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year, and the writer herself was awarded a number of grants (e.g. from the Gaude Polonia programme or the Berlin-based Junge Akademie der Künste). She reports for Deutsche Welle and Die Zeit Online and has worked for the Ukrainian television. To date, Malarczuk has written six books: Endspiel Adolfo, abo Trojanda dla Lizy [Endspiel Adolfo, or a Rose for Liza] (2004), Zhory wnyz. Knyhastrahiw [From Top to Bottom. A Book of Terrors] (2006), Jak ja stała swiatoju [How I Became a Saint] (2006), Howoryty [Speaking] (2007), Zwirosłow [Pets] (2009), Biohrafija
wypadkowoho czuda [The Biography of an Accidental Miracle] (2012), and Zabuttia (2016).