Occupation Writer | Nationality Ukrainian | |
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Born July 22, 1985 (age 31) ( 1985-07-22 ) | ||
Kateryna Babkina (Ukrainian: Катерина Бабкіна) (born 22 July 1985 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian writer. After graduating in Journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she started freelance writing, going on to become an editor for Esquire magazine in Ukraine. She has published a number of collections of short stories as well as a full length novel, Sonia. Babkina is the face of a Podolyan campaign and has written a screen play for a short film at the Kinofest festival as well as an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Biography
Kateryna Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine on 22 July 1985. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism and graduated in 2007 going on to work as a freelance journalist. She currently works as a contributing editor for Esquire in Ukraine and has had articles published in Focus, Business and Le Monde amongst others. In 2014 she became the face of the Podolyan campaign Story of a dress.
Career
Babkina has branched out from journalism to other writings. Whilst at university in 2002, Babkina published her first collection of poetry, titled St Elmo's Fire. She subsequently published two more books of poetry, The Mustard in 2011 and Painkillers and Sleeping Pills in 2014.
In 2008 Babkina released a collection of short stories called Leloo After You, before going on to release a full length novel in 2013 called Sonia. Sonia is the story of a girl trying to find her father when she becomes pregnant. Whilst looking in the city where she was born, she starts a relationship with a man who turns out the be her father. The book was well received, and shortlisted to the final 20 for BBC Book of the year 2013. In April 2016 Babkina published a collection short stories, Happy naked people.
Babkina took part in the 2013 Kinofest NYC festival, writing the screenplay for a short film, Evil, where a young pregnant girl cannot distinguish between her nightmares and reality. She also made a video rendition of some of her poetry in the same festival.
Babkina wrote a 2014 children's book of short stories called The Pumpkin Year. She followed it up with another children's book, Cap and Whale, in 2015.
In 2016, Babkina wrote the play Hamlet.Babylon, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which played in Kiev and Geneva.