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Kateryna Kalytko is a poet, novelist, and translator. She had published six collections of poetry and one novel. Pen Ukraine member. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies of Ukrainian literature, and her works have been translated into English, Polish, German, Hebrew, Armenian, Italian, and Serbian. Kalytko is an acclaimed translator who translates Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian works into Ukrainian, having translated works by authors such as Adisa Bašić, Nenad Veličković, and Miljenko Jergović. She received the Metaphora award in 2014 for her translation of Jergović’s works. She received  the Shevchenko National Prize and Joseph Konrad-Kozhenowski Literary Prize. Her book of short stories "Land of the Lost, or Little Scary Tales" won the 2017 BBC Book of the Year Award.