Артем Чапай
Born 1981 · Ukraine
BBC Ukrainian Book 2015 · Shortlist
Ponaikhaly
Title translated by AI:“Incomers”
Artem Chapeye · 34 when first published
Novel · 237 pages · Migration, Family · Білий Сад, book 1
AI-generated summary:Serhii Tkachuk fights illegal migrants at home while his parents work abroad; over more than a decade the novel follows the four Tkachuks of the invented town of Bilyi Sad as the father's mistakes pull the family apart.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2014 · Shortlist
Chervona zona
Title translated by AI:“Red Zone”
Artem Chapeye · 33 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Speculative, Politics
AI-generated summary:In a near-future Kyiv split into safe, wealthy green zones and poor, unprotected red ones, young journalist Anton Tsyperdiuk commits a crime by accident and has to flee into the red zone he knows only from the media.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2011 · Shortlist
Podorozh iz Mamaiotoiu v poshukakh Ukrainy
Title translated by AI:“A Journey with Mamaiota in Search of Ukraine”
Artem Chapeye · 30 when first published
Nonfiction · 271 pages
AI-generated summary:Back home from America, the author crosses Ukraine from west to east on a Japanese motorcycle he calls Mamaiota, in a travel diary of the people he meets in search of the country.