Kruk, Halyna

Halyna Kruk, born in 1974 in Lviv, Ukraine, is a poet, prose writer, translator from Polish, and literary scholar specializing in medieval Ukrainian literature. Even before her first two volumes of poetry were published in 1997, she was awarded two prestigious literary prizes: the Ptyvitannia Zhyttia Prize and the Granoslov Prize. In 2003, she won the international Step by Step competition and received the Gaude Polonia scholarship. Kruk also writes children’s books, which have been translated into 15 languages and with which she has enjoyed international success. She is a member of the Ukrainian Writers’ Union and holds a professorship in literary studies at the University of Lviv.

Festival Content

POETRY IN CONVERSATION: Halyna Kruk – There, the hairy spider of gloom is weaving

Halyna Kruk’s poems respond to the immediate reality – even (and especially) in times of crisis and war. She writes about disappearance, fast-flying summer weeks and the heaviness that suddenly settles on our lips. Her poems are messages from an uprooted world that “flees like running thistle behind the humpbacked horizon.”

Poetry in conversation

Kruk, Halyna

WELTKLANG – Night of Poetry

READING AND PERFORMANCE – Weltklang Night of Poetry is the poesiefestival berlin’s polyphonic opening event. Poets from all over the world will read, sing, and perform in seven languages – demonstrating the richness of contemporary poetry in all its approaches and styles.

Weltklang