Євгенія Кузнєцова
Born 1987 · Ukraine
BBC Ukrainian Book 2025 · Shortlist
Vivtsi tsili
Title translated by AI:“The Sheep Are Safe”
Yevhenia Kuznietsova · 38 when first published
Novel · 292 pages · War, Love
AI-generated summary:In the darkest wartime winter, with power cuts and generators humming, Yana slips through a hole in a fence near the Dnipro and is drawn into dilemmas without right answers, and into an uncertain love with Maksym.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2023 · Winner
Drabyna
Title translated by AI:“The Ladder”
Yevhenia Kuznietsova · 36 when first published
Novel · 278 pages · War, Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:Tolik has just bought a house of his own, four thousand kilometres from his tiresome family. Then the war begins and his relatives descend on him: his mother, a one-legged uncle, a distant cousin with her dog, his sister and her depressed friend.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2021 · Shortlist
Spytaite Miiechku
Title translated by AI:“Ask Miiechka”
Yevhenia Kuznietsova · 34 when first published
Novel · 265 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Two sisters lost in big-city life want to put everything on pause until September and return to their grandmother Teia's old house in the village of their childhood, but the summer brings people from their past, present and future to the door.