Grusha Yaryna

Yaryna Grusha is a Ukrainian born author and translator based in Italy. She teaches Ukrainian language and literature at the Universities of Milan. Together with her colleague Alessandro Achilli, she edited and co-translated the first anthology of Ukrainian poetry in Italian, Poeti d’Ucraina, published by Mondadori in 2022.
In 2023, she edited the first Ukrainian literary guide in Italian, Dimensione Kyiv, for Rizzoli. Her texts have appeared in Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica and il Foglio.Review. She translated Victoria Amelina’s Looking at Women, Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary into Italian for Guanda. Her debut novel, written in Italian, The Album Blu was pubblished by Bompiani in 2026.