Yaroslava Strikha
translator, literary scholar
Translates works by British and American authors including Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Don DeLillo, Kate Atkinson, Paul Auster, and Art Spiegelman. Her translation of Kate Atkinson’s “Behind the Scenes at the Museum” won the Best Book Award (2018), and her translations of I.B. Singer’s novels “The Slave” and “Shosha” were shortlisted for the 2022 Sholom Aleichem Prize. Participant in the Kharkiv literary residency “Slovo” (2019). Received her PhD from Harvard University in 2017.