Marie Iljašenko (1983) Czech Republic

poet, writer and translator

Marie Iljašenko is Czech poet, writer and translator originally from Kyiv. She has written two collections of poetry, Osip míří na jih (Osip heads south, 2015) and Sv. Outdoor (2019). She translates contemporary Polish and Ukrainian poetry into Czech and is the editor of the anthology of war reports Chleba z minového pole (Bread from the minefield, 2022). In 2023 she was awarded the Top Stoppard Prize for her essay Jsem všudezdejší (I'm a local everywhere around here).