Julia Musakovska
Ukrainian poet Julia Musakovska was born in Lviv in 1982. She is the author of six poetry collections: Men, Women and Children (2015), Hunting for Silence (2014), Masks (2011), Exhale and Inhale (2010), God of Freedom (2021), and Iron, (2022). Her individual poems have been translated into over 24 languages that include English, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian, Hebrew, and Chinese.

Her work has been published in magazines such as "SHO", "Kurier Kryvbasu", "Kyivska Rus", "Chetver", and RADAR, and in various almanacs and anthologies. She speaks Swedish, and has translated Swedish poets such as Thomas Transtremera and Karin Boye into Ukrainian. An article about Musakovska, On the frontlines of culture, was published in a Norwegian newspaper 5 May 2022. A Norwegian translation of her poem "Hver melding om død" is available via a Norwegian Library web page as well as a YouTube video.

She has been published in a bilingual anthology of Ukrainian poetry "Letters from Ukraine" with her translations of modern Ukrainian poetry into English. She is a guest lecturer at Ukrainian Catholic University.

Michael Patsis named her one of the most important female poets voices for Greece's largest online poetry publication along with Oksana Kutsenko, Oksana Zabuzhko, Lyuba Yakymchuk, Iryna Shuvalova and Natalka Bilotserkivets.

Historian Timothy Snyder concluded lecture 22 of his Yale University course The Making of Modern Ukraine by reading his translation of a poem from Musakovska's 2022 collection Iron, published by the Borderland Foundation in Poland.

Musakovska is an active member of PEN Ukraine.

Music

In 2016, together with director Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko, she filmed a poetry movie "The Clay" (poems and voice by Musakovska), which premiered at the International Book Arsenal Festival 2016 and at the Lviv Book Forum in 2017.

In 2018 she also presented a poetry and musical project "Circulation" based on her new poems together with musicians Taras Puzyr (bass guitar) and Luka-Teodor Hanulyak (percussion).

Awards

 1st prize of the DICTUM poetry competition from the "Krok" publishing house (2014)
 2nd prize in the "Smoloskyp" publisher competition (2010)
 1st prize in the "Vytoky" competition from the Ostrozka Academy (2010)
 B.-I. Antonych (2009)
 "Granoslov" (2008)

References 

Ukrainian women poets
1983 births
Living people