Liubov Kukharenko

Liubov Kukharenko is a translator from Kyiv with a varied experience, mostly focused on film and television translation, including subtitling, dubbing scripts, and scripts for production. After a brief pause in her translation career and a move to Toronto, Canada, she is coming back to translation with a renewed vigour and passion, having continued work with film festivals and script translations from Ukrainian into English. Participating in the UIL Literary Translation Workshop is a new exciting chapter in Liubov’s journey in translation, as well as a newfound way to take part in the promotion of Ukrainian culture around the world.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Ahatanhel Krymskyi, Andrii Lahovskyi

Contact: lyubov.kukharenko@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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