Tanja Maljartschuk Author

Tanja Maljartschuk, who was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine in 1983, has lived in Vienna since 2011. She studied Ukrainian philology and worked as a journalist in Kyiv. In Ukrainian, Tanja is the author of five collections of short prose, two novels, a young adult novel, and a forthcoming poetry collection. Her work has been translated into more than 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.