Irena Karpa

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Irena Karpa
Born (1980-12-08) December 8, 1980
Cherkasy, Ukraine
Language Ukrainian
Nationality  Ukraine
Ethnicity Ukrainian
Alma mater Kyiv National Linguistic University
Period since 1999
Notable award(s) "Hranoslov" (1999)
"Best Ukrainian Awards" (2006)
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Irena Karpa (Ukrainian: Ірена Карпа; born 8 December 1980 in Cherkasy) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and singer.

Since 1999 she is a frontwoman and songwriter of the band Faktychno Sami. Her first book appeared in 2000 when she studied in Kyiv National Linguistic University. After finish of the University she was travelling to South East Asia during a year. This became a reason of appearance of the book "Freud would cry".

From 2005 to 2008, she worked on TV (ICTV, Inter and MTV Ukraine). In 2004 she was a filmdirector of "Kyiv. Limited Edition" and later in 2006 was starring in Oleh Anpilohov's film "Autism" and A. Yakushenkov's film "Compote".

On May 17, 2008 Irena was married with journalist and writer Anton Friedland but in 2009 they divorced and in September she married American financier Norman Paul Hansen. They have two daughters.

Irena uses some rough words in her books. Some of her works were translated into Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and Russian.

Literary works

  • "Знес Паленого" (2000)
  • "50 хвилин трави" (2004)
  • "Фройд би плакав" (2004)
  • "Перламутрове Порно (Супермаркет самотності)" (2005)
  • "Bitches Get Everything" (2007)
  • "Супермаркет самотності. Перламутрове порно" (2008)
  • "Добло і зло" (2008)
  • "Цукерки, фрукти і ковбаси" (2010)
  • "Піца „Гімалаї“" (2011)
  • "З роси, води і калабані" (2012)

Discography

See Faktychno Sami

External links

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