Participants Poets

Bohdana Matiyash

poetess, translator, editor of the publishing house and magazine “The Critique”, representative of the Ukrainian version of the magazine “Ukrainian Journal”, Prague

Ukraine

The author of poetry books “Undeveloped Photos” (2005), “Conversations with God” (2007), “Your Favorite Dogs and Other Animals” (2011).

Selection of her poems “Tvoya Lubov Prosta I Usmihnena” (“Your Love Is Simple and Smiling” was included in the anthology “Metamorphoses. Ten Ukrainian Poets of the Past Decade” (2011).

Some of her poems were translated into ten languages.

Bohdana Matiyash is a translator from Belarusian and Polish into Ukrainian. In particular, the translated books are:

Andrzej Stasiuk. “Fado”. – Kyiv, 2009;

Mariusz Szczygieł. “Gottland”. – Kyiv, 2010.

Bohdana Matiyash was born and lives in Kyiv.