Kateryna Babkina
Poet, prose writer, columnist, screenwriter and playwright.
Kateryna Babkina is an author.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Kateryna Babkina is the author of five poetry collections (Lights of Saint Elm, 2002, The Mustard, 2011, Painkillers and Sleeping pills, 2014, Charmed for Love, 2017, Does not hurt, 2021), a novel (Sonia, 2013), a novel in short stories (My Grandfather Danced the Best, 2019) and two collections of stories (Lilu after you, 2008 and Happy naked people, 2016). She has also written books for kids (The Pumpkin year, The Hat and the Whale, The Snow Warm and Girls Power (the last co-authored with Mark Livin), which are extremely popular in Ukraine. Kateryna was the first ukrainian author to be invited to have readings in the Library of Congress, Washington, USA.
Her writings have been translated into English, Swedish, Polish, German, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Romanian, Chinese, Viethnamiese, Czech and Greek. Her plays were staged in Kyiv, Vienna and Geneva.
Kateryna Babkina has written for Esquire Ukraine, Le Monde, Harper's Bazaar and other media and is still doing that. Her poetry was published in a number of anthologies and almanacs (The Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review (USA), Poem (UK) etc)
In 2021, Kateryna Babkina won the Angelus Central European Literature Award for My grandfather danced better than anyone else published in the Polish language.
There are several short movies based on Kateryna Babkina's stories. In 2016, a short film by her script was screened at Cannes Film Festival in the Young Directors selection. The movie "Crazy" after Kateryna Babkina’s script got the Best Film and Best Script award at Open Night Festival (2016).
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