Daisy Gibbons
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DAISY GIBBONS is a literary translator from Ukrainian into English. A graduate of Cambridge University’s Slavonic Department, she took up translation and interpreting while living in Kyiv. She translates contemporary and classic Ukrainian literature and drama, and has been awarded prizes from the Ukrainian Institute in London for her work. She has translated works by Lesia Ukrainka, Sofia Andrukhovych, Victoria Amelina, Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, Tamara Duda, Oleg Sentsov, Olena Stiazhkina, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Irena Karpa, among others. Extracts of her work and short pieces have been published by The Guardian, Harper’s magazine, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. She now spends her time between Oxford and Ukraine.