Natalia Karpenko

Natalia Karpenko’s first translation, the short story ‘Bloemen’, by Hugo Claus, was published in 2003 in a Ukrainian journal of translated literature. Since then, she has translated work in various genres: primarily Dutch and Flemish novels and short stories, but also children’s books, poetry and nonfiction. Her most important translations are:

• The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
• ‘An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum'
• 'Awater' by Martinus Nijhoff
• One million butterflies by Edward van de Vendel and Carll Cneut