Haska Shyyan

Haska Shyyan is a Ukrainian writer and translator. Born in 1980 in Lviv, she studied Classical Philology at Lviv National University. In 2012, Haska debuted with the novel “Hunt, Doctor, Hunt!”. Her novel “Behind Their Backs”, written in 2016–2017 and published in 2019, won the European Union Prize for Literature. During the last decade, Haska lives between Lviv, Kyiv, and Brussels, writes prose and poetry, produces podcasts and book trailers.