Margaryta Surzhenko is a writer. She graduated from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (IAPM) in Kyiv in 2012 with a degree in political science and published her first book about the war in Luhansk in 2014. In 2015, she founded a website featuring innovative fairy tales, which brings together more than 300 texts. Margaryta Surzhenko has published five novels. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, she has been living in Germany and teaching creative writing.

During her time in Los Angeles, Margaryta Surzhenko reflects on her experiences with the war in Ukraine and the peculiarities of life in multicultural Germany, adding a transatlantic perspective. She processes these thoughts in prose form, focusing on advocating democratic values and a culture of communication that connects people.


Selected Awards

2022 | Scholarship of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia
2022 | Scholarship of the University of Leipzig
2022 | Scholarship of the German National Library


Selected Publications

2023 | ”Irpin wartete, und sie kehrten zurück.” Literaturportal Bayern,
https://www.literaturportal-bayern.de/journal?task=lpbblog.default&id=3037
2022 | “Drei Tage in Kyjiw,” Literaturportal Bayern,
https://www.literaturportal-bayern.de/journal?task=lpbblog.default&id=2953
2022 | “Das Haus der Sünden von Kyjiw,” Eine Brücke aus Papier,
https://paperbridge.de/project/margaryta-surzhenko-das-haus-der-suenden