John Farndon is a best-selling author of over one thousand non-fiction books, a playwright, songwriter, poet, and an award-winning translator of literary works. Over the last three years he has translated hundreds of Ukrainian poems and over thirty new Ukrainian plays in conjunction with the Worldwide Ukrainian Playreading Project, including Neda Nejdana’s Pussycat in Memory of Darkness, and Inna Goncharova’s The Trumpeter, staged at London’s Finborough and on tour. Joint winner of the 2019 EBRD Literature Prize for Hamid Ismailov’s Devil’s Dance, 2020 finalist for the PEN Translation Prize for co-translating Rollan Seisenbaev’s The Dead Wander in the Desert.
Translations in London Ukrainian Review:
Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘Falling forest’
Contact: john.farndon@cantab.net
