Yuliia Iliukha
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Yuliia Iliukha
YULIIA ILIUKHA is a poet, prose writer and journalist, born in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine. Her poems and prose stories have been translated into over fifteen languages. Iliukha has received awards including the Oles Honchar International Ukrainian-German Literary Prize, the Smoloskyp Prize and the Ukrainian BBC Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2025.
Hanna Leliv (translator)
ANNA LELIV is a freelance literary translator working between Ukrainian and English.
My Women
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My Women£10.99
Yuliia Iliukha’s My Women, exceptionally translated from Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv, is a gripping series of vignettes of women confronted with the countless brutalities of war. It locates the voices and devastating experiences of those who have been silenced, those who have lost loved ones, those who have fought and persevered, and those who have broken down.
Through poetic repetition, the nameless protagonists bring succinct and emotionally charged stories that evoke life during war in Ukraine with an intensity that is excruciatingly difficult and deeply moving. These are the stories of the women left behind.
