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by Kate Tsurkan (Translator), Khrystia Vengryniuk (Author), Dmytro Kyyan (Translator)
In The Hamlet Called America, Khrystia Vengryniuk has brilliantly rendered a mostly isolated village--full of eccentric characters living, loving, and losing together--and in doing so has created an astounding metaphor for the pitfalls of contemporary national isolationism, which speaks directly to the fraught political culture plaguing not only the United States, but the whole world.
Author Biography
Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at The Kyiv Independent where she writes mainly about culture- related topics. Her writing and translations have also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Apofenie.
Khrystia Vengryniuk is an award-winning writer, literary critic, and painter from Chernivtsi. She is the author of the novel The Hamlet Called America, the poetry collections The Long Eyes and About My Old White Drake, the short story collection To Be Born and Die In Shoes, as well as multiple children's books. She is the cofounder of Chorni Vivtsi, one of Ukraine's leading publishing houses for children. Her words have appeared in English translation in The Translation Review, Asymptote, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Trafika Europe, The Dewdrop, The Kyiv Independent, and Apofenie.
Dmytro Kyyan is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor, and translator originally from Kharkiv. From the 1990s to the early aughts he was the editor-in-chief of Foto & Video Magazine and under his direction, it became the leading publication in photography throughout Eastern Europe. His co-translation with Kate Tsurkan of Oleh Sentsov's Diary of a Hunger Striker was published by Deep Vellum in 2024.
