Sofia Andrukhovych

writer

Sofia Andrukhovych ranks among the most distinctive Ukrainian writers today. Her prose combines strong narrative with historical reflection and a female perspective. She earned a great deal of attention for her novel Felix Austria (2025), which won the award for BBC Ukraine Book of the Year and was adapted into a film under the title Devoted (Viddana, 2020). In her sprawling novel Amadoka (2020) she explores, with extraordinary sensitivity, the themes of memory, identity, and the traumas of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust, Stalinist terror, and the occupation of the Donbas. The book was widely acclaimed and won the 2024 International Hermann Hesse Prize, with the jury citing how the author “created a broad panorama of twentieth-century Ukraine in a formally rich and impressive way.” In her latest novel, Catananhe (Katananhe, 2024), which has not yet been published in English, Andrukhovych focuses on post-war Ukraine through the stories of the ordinary inhabitants of a block of flats in Kyiv. She is the daughter of renowned Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych. She lives in Kyiv.