Helena Kernan is a literary translator of Ukrainian and holds master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from the UK, she has lived in several European cities, including Kyiv, where she worked with the Theatre of Displaced People and Centre for Civil Liberties, and is now based in Berlin. She works with a wide variety of texts, from contemporary Ukrainian drama to poetry, documentary films, witness testimony, and editorial pieces. In 2024 she was chosen as a participant in the inaugural Translating Ukraine Summer Institute held in Wrocław, Poland.
Translations in London Ukrainian Review:
Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘Amid voicing’
Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘My head rolls from tree to tree’
Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘Nikita, read this prayer at least once per day, carry it with you in your pocket.’
Olha Matsiupa, A Topography of the Body
Contact: helena.r.k@hotmail.co.uk