Tanja Maljartschuk

(Ukraine, 1983) is a writer, essayist and journalist. Her work has been published in several languages. She has lived in Vienna since 2011 and has been writing in German since 2014, including columns for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and news magazine Zeit Online. Her novel Zabuttya (Oblivion, 2016) was awarded as Book of Year by BBC Ukraine. After publication in autumn 2022 in Dutch translation by Tobias Wals and Marina Snoek, Dutch national newspaper NRC wrote: "Then again, the novel breathes the typical, early-twentieth-century Thomas Mann atmosphere, then again it jumps to the love life of a modern young woman. It works really beautifully (...) Ultimately, this incredibly rich, lyrical and melancholic novel wants to tell something about generational trauma. And even more than about the history of Ukraine, Maljartschuk's book is about forgetting." Her debut novel Biografie eines zufälligen Wunders (A Biography of a Chance Miracle) was published in 2012 and the collection of essays Gleich geht die Geschichte weiter, wir atmen nur aus (In a moment, the story continues, we just exhale) in 2022, in which she describes what Russia's bellicose expansionist policy is doing to Ukraine from the Maidan protests in 2014 onwards. In 2018, she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her short story Frösche im Meer (Frogs in the Sea).