Lyudmyla Diadchenko (Ukraine)

Born in 1988, she is a poet, Doctor of Philosophy in the theory of literature, and an expert for the Ukrainian literary rating “The Book of the Year”. Her scientific interests include: mythopoetics, hermeneutics, and spatial studies.
Her first poetry collection, “Fee for Access”, was published in Ukrainian in 2011. In 2024, her Romanian edition of the book “Side by Side with the Souls” was released, and in 2023, her English-language book, “Magnetic Storms”, was published in the USA. The same year was marked by the publication of her Italian (“The Fear of Numbers”) and Greek (“The Color of Geography”) editions. Except for her very first book, she has published two more in her native Ukrainian: “A Hen for the Turkish Man” (2017) and “Kedem” (2021).

In 2012, Lyudmyla Diadchenko received the Oles Gonchar International Ukrainian-German Prize and the Italian International Ceppo Award 2023 for peace and poetry.

Since 2017, she has participated in as many as 15 International poetry festivals all over the world. Accordingly, her poems are translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Romanian, Croatian, Bosnian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Chinese, Azerbaijani, Russian, and Turkish languages.