Sofia Andrukhovych

Sofia Yuriyivna Andrukhovych (Ukrainian: Софі́я Ю́ріївна Андрухо́вич, born 17 November 1982) is a Ukrainian writer and translator. The wife of Andriy Bondar, Ukrainian writer.

Sofia Andrukhovych
Sofia Andrukhovych in Wrocław, 2015.
Born (1982-11-17) 17 November 1982
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Occupationwriter, translator

Life and career

Sofia Andrukhovych was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, the daughter of Yuri Andrukhovych. She is married to a Ukrainian writer Andriy Bondar, with whom she has a daughter Varvara, born 10 March 2008.

Andrukhovych is a co-editor of Chetver periodical. In 2004 she received a residence grant from Villa Decius Association in Krakow where she used to live.[1] She now resides in Kyiv.

In December 2014, her novel Felix Austria won BBC Ukrainian's Book of the Year 2014 award.[2]

Publications

Prose
  • Літо Мілени (Kiev, 2002).
  • Старі люди (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2003).
  • Жінки їхніх чоловіків (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2005).
  • Сьомга (Kiev, 2007).
  • Фелікс Австрія, English: Felix Austria (Lviv, 2014).

Translations
  • Manuela Gretkowska. Європейка. Translation from Polish.
  • J. K. Rowling. Гаррі Поттер і келих вогню. Translation from English (together with Victor Morozov].
gollark: I guess so. If you need, say, ten changes to an enzyme to bring it from one state to a much better one, but it works much worse/totally breaks while it's in the middle of both, it's hard for it to evolve to the better version.
gollark: If one what is stuck?
gollark: I was going to say, though: with human eyes - the light-sensitive bit is behind some other stuff, and while a goal-directed human engineer would probably go "I'll just rotate this thing then", if you don't have a convenient series of changes which still leave everything working in each intermediate state, you can't really get it evolving into the new version.
gollark: I... don't really know a massive amount about this, to be honest.
gollark: Or it got stuck in a local maximum, which happens a lot.

References
  1. "Forum for Dialogue between Cultures". Villa Decius Association.
  2. "BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2014 and Book of the Decade winners named". The Financial. 13 December 2014.
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