Rights Information

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Rights manager Nataliia Koval, nataliya.koval@ranok.com.ua

Contact of the Ukrainian Book Institute: ubi@ubi.org.ua

Author Biography

Halyna Tkachuk is a writer, literary scholar and teacher. She was born in 1985 in Khmelnytsky but was raised in the Kyiv region, where she currently lives. She studied literature at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and researched the image of the city in children’s literature. Halyna Tkachuk was an editor of the teen magazine Odnoklasnyk (The Classmate), participated in BaraBooka. The Space of the Ukrainian Children’s Book, taught Ukrainian, literature and creative writing for junior students at an alternative school. Since 2017, she has been the inspirer and manager of the literary studio Napysator (The Scriber). Halyna Tkachuk is the author of such children’s novellas as Vechirni Kramnytsi Vulytsi Voloskoyi (The Evening Shops of Voloska Street), Bilka Kvasolya ta Opivnichnyi Pozhyraka (Beans the Squirrel and Midnight Glutton); picture books for the youngest readers Hoydalka pid Klenom (The Swing under the Maple Tree, available in our catalogue), Synia Korobka (The Blue Box), Zelena Bilka (The Green Squirrel) and Moya Naytykhisha Knyzhka (My Most Silent Book); collection of stories Trynadtsiat Istoriy u Temriavi (Thirteen Stories to Tell in the Dark), as well as informative books Shkoloznavstvo (The Science of School) and Knyzhka pro Smittya (The Book about Garbage), written in cooperation with teenage authors.

Nastia Sorozhynska is a wonderful young Ukrainian artist. Her illustrations for My Most Silent Book demonstrate how sensibly and subtly the artist perceives the world. Her modern and expressive work, with its calm colour scheme is perfectly suited to the themes of My Most Silent Book.