Yelyzaveta Bolotova

Yelyzaveta Bolotova is a Kyiv-based translator working between English and Ukrainian. She translates into English full-time, helping map the cyber underground. Her freelance work is in literary translation, game localisation, and film. Among other things, she has worked on the novels The World and All That It Holds and Ruination, the games Oxygen Not Included and Layers of Fear, translated into Ukrainian, and the documentary series Gone with the Water.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Marko Cheremshyna, The Village Is Trembling

Contact: yelizaveta.bolotova@gmail.com


Iya Kiva, ‘a frozen sea’

Author: Iya KivaTranslationTranslator: Amelia GlaserTranslator: Yuliya Ilchuk

a frozen sea of people rolls stones around its mouth
this dead language of a time we’ll turn to
when the wind cuts life’s thread like a flower […]

trans. by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘Amid voicing’

Author: Maksym KryvtsovTranslationTranslator: Helena Kernan

Amid voicing
and amid silence
among the trees and the insects
and a fearsome metal seagull. […]

trans. by Helena Kernan
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