Halyna Pahutyak

Україна

A prominent Ukrainian writer. Born in the village of Zalokot, Drohobych district, Lviv region. Graduated from the Ukrainian Philology Department of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University. Author of over ten books of prose, including the cult novels “The Servant from Dobromyl”, “Uryzhk Gothic”, “Magnate”. Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize for Literature (2010). Critics call her a prominent representative of the directions of magical realism, mysticism and Galician Gothic in modern Ukrainian literature. Lives and works in Lviv. She is fond of traveling and researching the microhistory of Galicia.