Halyna Kruk (Ukraine)

Halyna Kruk (born 1974) is an internationally acclaimed poet, translator, and literary scholar. She has served as the vice president of Ukrainian PEN and currently teaches Ukrainian literature at Ivan Franko University in Lviv. Kruk has published six poetry collections, and received various literary awards, and her poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages. In Estonian, her work has been translated by Anna Verschik and Maarja Kangro, the latter receiving the August Sang Translation Award last year for her translation of Kruk’s poem “The History of Humanity”. Kruk also writes for children and young adults, and her children’s books have been translated into many languages.