Resident

Halyna (Haska) Shyyan
From 29 June to 28 July 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Born in 1980 in Lviv, Haska Shyyan is an Ukrainian prose and poetry author, also a translator and a cultural programmer. She studied classical philology and has translated into Ukrainian the DBC Pierre novel Lights out in Wonderland. She is the author of two novels and was the first Ukrainian writer to win the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019. She regularly contributes to different magazines. She is also a curator of the special program for the Lviv Book Forum.