Volodymyr Rafeienko

Volodymyr Rafeyenko is a Ukrainian writer, poet, translator, literary and film critic. Although he initially wrote and published in Russian, his novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love was his first in Ukrainian. His work has been recognized with a Peterson Literary Fund award, the Volodymyr Korolenko Prize, and the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award, as well as shortlisted for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize and longlisted for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. Rafeyenko is a research scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and writer-in-residence at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh.