Yuliia Iliukha
Ukraine
The author and journalist Yuliia Iliukha was born in 1982 near Kharkiv. In Ukraine, she has published novels, short stories, poems and several children’s books. Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2014, she volunteered to help procure first-aid equipment and curated The mark of home, a multimedia project aimed at the rehabilitation of Ukrainian war veterans through creativity. In 2022, she left her homeland with her son and has been living in exile in Austria ever since.
Meine Frauen is a collection of prose miniatures: 40 intensely condensed portraits of women at war, many just a single page long. They all begin in the same way, with the words “The woman who…”: The woman who was caught in the bath by the air-raid siren. The woman who wanted to quickly fetch some milk for her morning coffee. The woman who was to identify her husband in the pile of bodies. These are the stories of desperate, frightened women, as well as strong, hopeful ones. Yuliia Iliukha recounts in a calm, laconic tone what the ongoing war against Ukraine is doing to people – to women. It is precisely through their brevity that these portraits develop their enormous power. At times hard to bear, this book is definitely a read that leaves a lasting impression.
Meine Frauen. Translated from Ukrainian by Chrystyna Nazarkewytsch and Harald Fleischmann. Edition Thanhäuser 2024
Das letzte Ahornblatt. Translated from Ukrainian by Alois Woldan. Edition Thanhäuser 2024
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