Nataliya Belchenko

Nataliya Belchenko was born in 1973 in Kyiv. Ukrainian poetess, translator (Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian and Russian). Worked in the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after O. O. Potebnia. Graduated with honors from the Department of Philology of the Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Has scientific publications on mythopoetics. Member of the Ukrainian PEN.

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Nataliya Belchenko was born in 1973 in Kyiv. Ukrainian poetess, translator (Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian and Russian). Worked in the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after O. O. Potebnia. Graduated with honors from the Department of Philology of the Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Has scientific publications on mythopoetics. Member of the Ukrainian PEN.
Author of nine collections of poems. Winner of the Hubert Burda Literary Prize (Germany, 2000), the Literary Prize named after Mykola Ushakov (2006), the Prize named after Leonid Vysheslavskyi „Poet’s Planet“ (2014), the „Metaphora“ translation award (2014, 2018); for the collection „Signs And Treasures“ she received the award of the Foundation named after Lesia and Petro Kovalevs at the Union of Ukrainian Women of America (2019).
Belchenko’s poems are translated into German, French, English, Bulgarian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Hebrew, Spanish, Hungarian, and Italian; are published in Ukraine and abroad. She is one of the winners of the international contest for the best translation of Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry into the Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian languages (the Ukrainian language, Wroclaw, 2015).
Worked at the Ventspils House residency for writers and translators (2016, 2018, 2021, Latvia). Gaude Polonia scholarship holder (2017). Resident of the Wislawa Szymborska Foundation and the Institute of Literature in Krakow (2022).
Picture credits to Sergiusz Olenycz