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Author Biography

Svitlana Volodymyrivna Taratorina (born September 25, 1985, Rozdolne, Crimea, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian writer, PR manager, and journalist. In 2000, she graduated from a secondary school in the village of Rozdolne (Crimea). She was a member of the children's jury of the Artek International Children's Film Festival. In 2001, she received a study grant from the Fund for Intellectual Cooperation "Ukraine - XXI Century". In 2006, she graduated from the M. P. Drahomanov National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov with honours. She workes as a journalist. Svitlana Taratorina's articles and reviews were published in ELLE magasine, in the Ukrainian media such as Pravda, Glavred, DreamKyiv, Gazeta.ua, and others. In 2018, the manuscript of the fantasy novel "Lazarus" won a publishing competition, as a result of which the book was published (K., KM-Books Publishing Group, 2018). The novel "Lazarus" won the "LitAccent of the Year - 2018" award, in 2019 it was included in the long list of "BBC Books of the Year". The novel was named the book of the year by the fanzine "World of Fantasy" and was included in the list of the 10 most important books of 2018 by The Village magazine. In 2019, the novel "Lazarus" was awarded a special award of the Ukrainian Book Institute at BookForum Best Book in Lviv. In the same year, Svitlana Taratorina received an award from the European Society of Science Fiction The CHRYSALIS AWARDS for the best debut and was included in the 25 best Ukarina writers according to the Focus magazine.