Rights Information

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

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

Author Biography

Oksana Lushchevska is an author of 42 book for children and teenagers, translator, publicist, critic and scholar of children’s and teen literature. She was born in 1982 in Talne, Cherkasy region, and graduated from Uman State Pedagogical University, after which she did a Master’s degree program at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2016 she obtained a PhD in Education at the University of Georgia. She majors in the global children’s literature and reading reception. Oksana Lushchevska has authored such books as ‘Z Vody u Vodu’ (From Water to Water), ‘Inshyy Dim’ (The Other Home), ‘Zadzerkallya’ (The Mirror World), ‘Viter z-pid Sontsya’ (The Wind from under the Sun), etc. Her children’s books have been included in shortlists of BBC Ukraine Book of the Year and LitAkcent of the Year and highly valued by the BaraBooka experts. In 2017, her novella ‘The Wind from under the Sun’ was included in White Ravens, a prestigious catalogue of the best 200 releases of the year. Oksana Lushchevska is the winner of such literary contests as Zoloty Leleka (2018), Smoloskyp (2009), Napyshit pro mene Knyzhku (2016 & 2018). She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and actively writes her blogs on Instagram and Facebook.