Sofiya Andrukhovych wins Conrad literature prize

She received the Laureate Diploma and the award of 3,000 euros and a six-month internship in Poland in 2016 in the form of a scholarship program organized by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland "GAUDE POLONIA". Sofiya Andrukhovych is a writer, translator and journalist. She was born in 1982 in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk. She authored prose books "Milena’s Summer" (2002), "Old People" (2003), "Women of  their husbands" (2005), "Salmon" (2007) and numerous articles in the press.  For her novel "Felix Austria" published in 2014 she won two awards - the award "Book of the Year by BBC» and Lesia and Peter Kovalev Prize Foundation (USA) 2015. Two books of the author’s books "Women of their husbands" and "Salmon" were published in Polish by Czarne publishing house. "Felix Austria" will be released in Poland and Austria in 2016. Joseph Conrad Literary Prize was established in 2007 by the Polish Institute in Kyiv to award a Ukrainian writer. The Conrad award winners were: Tanya Malyarchuk (2013), Natalka Sniadanko (2011), Serhiy Zhadan (2009), Taras Prokhasko (2007).