Shortlist, BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2024

Halyna Tarasenko

Cover of the novel by Halyna Tarasenko: a blue cover with light lettering

«Колишнім не читати»

A Ukrainian romcom about love, exes and growing up in the 2010s. Currently available in Ukrainian.

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Novel in Ukrainian · 434 pp. · Orlando Publishing · 2024

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The novels are published in Ukrainian. English pages appear once an official translation of the texts is approved.

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About Halyna Tarasenko

Halyna Tarasenko is a Ukrainian writer born in 1990 in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). She has lived in Kyiv since 2014.

Her debut novel, published by Orlando Publishing in 2024, was shortlisted for the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2024.

Shortlist, BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2024

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