Kateryna Kalytko is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and translator. She has published seven collections of poetry, and two short story collections. Her most recent collection of poems was awarded the Litaktsent Prize in 2019, while her most recent prose collection was the BBC Book of the Year in 2017. Her translations from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian into Ukrainian include works by Adisa Bašić, Nenad Veličković, and Miljenko Jergović. She is the founder of the Intermezzo Short Story Festival.
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