Sofia Andruchowytsch

Sofia Andrukhovych is a writer from Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine. She has written three books of short prose, three novels, one children’s book and essays. Her novel Felix Austria (2014) won the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year award and in 2015 she was awarded the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski prize. Her latest novel, Amadoka (2019), weaves together the histories of the ongoing war against Russia, the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s and the Holocaust in Ukraine.