Daryna Gladun

Daryna Gladun (1993) is Ukrainian writer, translator, performance artist and researcher. She is a young, celebrated poet who won number of Ukrainian and International poetry competitions and scholarships (such as ‘Word Coronation’, Oles Honchar Ukrainian-German literary award, Smoloskyp publishing house literary competition prize etc). Daryna Gladun is the author of two books of poetry (written and published in Ukrainian language). The first one рубати дерево (“to chop the tree”), 2017, was marked as one of the best poetry books of the year by Ukrainian literary critics, book reviewers, Intenational jury of Kovaliv Foundation Prize, book bloggers and readers. Her second book ІЗ ТІНІ КРАСИВИХ ЧЕРВОНИХ ХЛОПЧИКІВ (“FROM THE SHADOW OF HANDSOME RED BOYS”), 2020, touches upon topics of soviet and post-soviet experiences of the discriminated groups of people and became one of the best Ukrainian poetry books of 2020 according to PEN Ukraine. And now is going to be published in Poland translated by Janusz Radwański. Daryna Gladun is the participant of international residences and literary projects in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, and Poland. Her poems have been translated into over 10 world languages.