Maryna Sokolyan

Maryna Sokolyan is a Ukrainian author. The critical reviews define her work as “uncommon event in a contemporary fiction”, and draw attention to the exquisite and well-cultivated language and to the complex intellectual references towards English literature. She was born 18 December 1979 in Poltava, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine). In 2002 she graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with an MA in Sociology.

Publications

Books

• “Vezhi ta pidzemellya/Towers and dungeons”, “Grani-T” publishing house, Kiev, 2008
• “Novendialia”, “Fact” publishing house, Kiev, 2008
• “Herem” novel”, “Fact” publishing house, Kiev, 2007
• “Storonni v domi/Strangers in the House”, “Fact” publishing house, Kiev, 2006
• “Kodlo/Gang” (translation), “Idea-press” publishing house, Moscow, 2006
• “Kovdra snovydy/Sleepwalker's Blanket”, “Fact” publishing house, Kiev, 2005
• “Balada dlia Kryvoji Vargy/Ballade for the Crooked Varga”, “Nora-Druk” publishing house, Kiev, 2005
• “Kodlo/Gang”, “Fact” publishing house, Kiev, 2003
• “Tsurpalky/Splinters” short story collection, “Smoloskyp” publishing house, Kiev, 2003

Plays

• “Retorta/Retort” published by the Sumno.com e-zine, Kiev, 2006
• “Soul lifters and the spirit of capitalism”, published by “Nora-Druk” publishing house, Kiev, 2005
• “Dialogues of the Gods”, published by “Pokolenije” magazine, Kiev, 2003

Selected awards

• 2008 ESFS encouragement award, Eurocon-2008
• 2008 “Portal” prize for the “Herem” novel
• 2006 “Koronatsia slova/ Coronation of the word” prize for the “Retorta” play
• 2005 Awarded a stipend by “Homines Urbani” program at Villa Decius, Kraków, Poland
• 2004 First place for literature in the “Biennale of the modern arts of Ukraine” (for the “Balada dlia Kryvoji Vargy” novel)
• 2003 First place in the “StArt” contest for young writers (for the “Kodlo” novel)

External links

• Maryna Sokolyan homepage
• a selection of poetry at СУМНО