Olena Herasymyuk (Олена Герасим’юк)
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Olena Herasymyuk Олена Герасим’юк
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About

* 03.09.1991, Kiev, Ucrania
Vive en: Kiev, Ucrania

The Ukrainian poet, essayist and activist Olena Herasymyuk was born in Kyiv in 1991 as the daughter of the poet Vasyl Herasymiuk and studied literature in Kyiv. She is part of the younger generation of Ukrainian poets, whose work distinguishes itself through, among other characteristics, a newly awakening national consciousness.

In 2012 she won the first prize in the competition "In Memory of Leonid Kiselyov", in 2013 the second prize in the "Torch" literary competition in the category "Poetry" and also in 2013 she was awarded the International Ukrainian-German Literature Prize of Oles Honchar. In the same year, she was awarded the Ukrainian President's Prize for Poetry, which she refused in protest against the Yanukovych government.

Together with Vasyl Karpyuk, she organised the collection Євромайдан. Лірична хроніка (Euromaidan. Lyrical Chronicle, 2014) with poems by many Ukrainian authors. In 2014, she also published her first book of poems, Gluchota (Deafness), a collection of densely composed texts with great dynamism. Her poems have also appeared in magazines and anthologies and have been translated into several languages. Olena Herasymyuk also works for the radio.

In 2016, her poem Tyuremna pisnya (A Prison Song), in which she processes her war experiences, was performed as part of the "Porto Franko Gogol Fest" arts festival. It was recited in the basement of the theatre in Ivano-Frankivsk by fighters of the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) and former political prisoners to great acclaim. Together with other authors, she initiated and published the project Rozstriljanij Kalender (Execution Calendar, 2017), which collects and publishes documents and information about the repression of Ukrainian intellectuals during the Soviet era.

In 2017 she joined a military medical battalion in the Donbass, and in 2019 Ukraine awarded her the medal "For Saving Lives".