Marie Iljašenko

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The poet published her first collection of poems Osip Goes South in 2015. It was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Prize and received an exceptionally favourable response from Czech readers. Her work conveys her subjective view of Central European “cultural experience”. 

Born in 1983 in Kiev in a family with Czech and Polish roots, she grew up in Bohemia, where she studied Russian and comparative literature at Charles University. 

Marie Iljašenko’s latest collection of poems is Saint Outdoor. 

Her translations from the Ukrainian include: novels Heavenly Abodes by Arkady Rovner, Jerusalem Dreams by Aleandra and Leo Shargorodsky, and the poetry collections Songs of a Dead Rooster, and India by Yuri Andrukho- vych. 

Marie Iljašenko will speak with Patrizia Cavalli. 

She lives in Prague.