Marianna Kiyanovska (born November 17, 1973, in Zhovkva) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and a literary scholar and is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize (2020) and the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2022) for the poetry book The Voices of Babyn Yar. She is a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian PEN.

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Marianna Kiyanovska
Born	November 17, 1973
Occupation	Prose writer, literary scholar, literary critic

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Marianna Kiyanovska was born on November 17, 1973^[1] in Zhovkva.^[2] She holds a degree in Ukrainian studies^[3] from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.^[2] She co-created an all-female literary group called ММЮННА ТУГА, together with Natalka Sniadanko, Mariana Savka and others.^[4]

She debuted in 1997 with poetry book Reincarnation.^[2] Her works have appeared in various anthologies, almanacs and magazines, such as Svitovyd, Suchasnist`, Chetver, Kuryer Kryvbasu, Kalmius, Literatura na Świecie, Studium, Akcent and Ukrainian Quarterly.^[2]

In 2011, she founded the Big Hedgehog: the first non-governmental literary award in Ukraine dedicated to honoring authors of books for children and youth.^[3] She is the coordinator of the Lviv office^[3] of Ukrainian Association of Writers, as well as a member of National Union of Ukrainian Writers and PEN Ukraine.^[2]

She works as a translator and has translated to Ukrainian works by Salim Babullaoglu, Julian Tuwim, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Adam Wiedemann, Gintaras Grajauskas, and Shota Iatashvili.^[2]

Her works have been translated into eighteen languages^[5] including English, German and Italian.^[2]

She has won scholarships from the Polish “Gaude Polonia” program (2003, 2009, 2016) and a Slovene CEI Fellowship (2007).^[2] In 2011, she was among the finalists for the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Prize and she became the laureate of the International Festival of Poetry Kyiv Laurs.^[2] Two years later she was presented with the Polish Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.^[3][5] In 2020, she was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for The Voices of Babyn Yar^[5] poetry book, where she lent her voice to the Jewish victims of the Babi Yar massacre.^[6] In 2022, its Polish translation received recognition with a European Poet of Freedom Award; later that year Kiyanovska was also awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.^[7]

• List of Ukrainian-language poets
• List of Ukrainian women writers
• List of Ukrainian literature translated into English