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Artem Chekh

Артем Чех

Born 1985 · Ukraine

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    BBC Ukrainian Book 2021 · Winner

    Rock, Paper, Grenade

    Хто ти такий? · Khto ty takyi?

    Artem Chekh · 36 when first published

    Novel · 208 pages · Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:Young Tymofii grows up beside Felix, his enemy and friend, tormentor and mentor, a man shell-shocked by a distant war who keeps asking 'Who are you?'. By the end, a nearly grown Tymofii asks himself the same question.

  • No English yet

    BBC Ukrainian Book 2019 · Shortlist

    Район «Д»

    Raion «D»

    Title translated by AI:“District D”

    Artem Chekh · 34 when first published

    Short stories · 317 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:Linked stories that build a self-critical portrait of the author and a group portrait of the residents of one district of Cherkasy, as they try to live through the sudden passage from late Soviet to newly independent Ukraine.