Maria Matios
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Maria Matios – Ukrainian writer. Winner of the “Book of the Year 2004” and of the Taras Shevchenko
National Award in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia). Author of 12 volumes of poetry and prose. The most widely known are: Sweet Darusia (2003, 2004, 2005), Nation (2002, 2003) and The Short Life (2001).
She is the author of the Banquet at Maria Matios, the first cookery book in contemporary Ukrainian literature and the controversial Boulevard Novel. Her interests include psychology, ethnography, gardening and floriculture.
Her prose works have been translated into Russian, Polish and English (...Hardly Ever Otherwise).
Maria Matios bases her books on the unique experiences of her family, whose roots go back as far as 1790. She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovyna region. Presently she resides in Kiev
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Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
National Award in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia). Author of 12 volumes of poetry and prose. The most widely known are: Sweet Darusia (2003, 2004, 2005), Nation (2002, 2003) and The Short Life (2001).
She is the author of the Banquet at Maria Matios, the first cookery book in contemporary Ukrainian literature and the controversial Boulevard Novel. Her interests include psychology, ethnography, gardening and floriculture.
Her prose works have been translated into Russian, Polish and English (...Hardly Ever Otherwise).
Maria Matios bases her books on the unique experiences of her family, whose roots go back as far as 1790. She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovyna region. Presently she resides in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
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