Hanna Leliv

Literary translator from Lviv, Ukraine.

Hello and welcome to my personal page. I am a Ukrainian translator currently based in the US. I translate fiction and creative non-fiction, working between Ukrainian and English. Having given a Ukrainian voice to Hemingway and Ishiguro, I am now passionate about promoting Ukrainian literature abroad, with a special focus on women’s voices and children's books. Please feel free to email me or send me a message on Facebook.

Qualifications

Translator-in-Residence, Princeton University, USA, 2023-24

Leslie Center Faculty Fellow at the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, USA, 2022-23

Fulbright Fellow, MFA in Literary Translation, University of Iowa, USA, 2017-18

MA in English Language and Literature, Lviv Ivan Franko National University, Ukraine, 2009-10

BA in English Language and Literature, Lviv Ivan Franko National University, Ukraine, 2004-09

Translations: Fiction and creative non-fiction

Innovation in Isolation: The Story of Ukrainian IT from the 1940s to the Present (available now for pre-order!)

by Volodymyr Nevzorov. Co-translated with Reilly Costigan-Humes. MacPaw, 2025

The Language of War

by Oleksandr Mykhed. Co-translated with Maryna Gibson and Abby Dewar. Allen Lane, 2024

My Women

by Yuliia Iliukha. 128 Lit, 2024

Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora

edited by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Olha Brylova, and Iryna Pasko. Atthis Arts, 2024

A Cool History of Ukraine: From Dinosaurs till Now

by Inna Kovalyshena. Scholastic, 2023

Virginia's Sisters: An Anthology of Women's Writing

edited by Gabi Reigh. Aurora Metro Books, 2023

Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine

edited by Kateryna Kazimirova and Daryna Anastasieva. 8th & Atlas Publishing, 2022

(In)visible

by Ivan Baidak. Co-translated with Isaac Wheeler. Guernica Editions, Canada, 2022

Cappy and the Whale

by Kateryna Babkina. Penguin Random House UK, 2022

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

by Markiyan Kamysh. Co-translated with Reilly Costigan-Humes. Astra House, 2022

Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity

by Olesia Yaremchuk. Co-translated with Zenia Tompkins. Ibidem-Verlag, 2020

Translations: Poetry, essays, short stories

Artur Dron, From the Trenches: New Work by Ukrainian Poet and Soldier Artur Dron, LitHub, 2024
Artur Dron; Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Nine Ukrainian-Language Poets, The Loch Raven Review, 2024
Hanna Leliv, Capturing the Refugee Experience: Translation of Oksana Savchenko's 'My Hell', Ukrainian Drama Translations, 2024
Sofia Yablonska, 'Marseille', London Ukrainian Review, 2024
Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, ‘Poems: (the fish speaks), (witnesses of war crimes)’, London Ukrainian Review, 2024
Natalia Matolinets, ‘A box for buttons, tips, and rose petal jam’, Tales&Feathers, 2023
Yuliia Iliukha, ‘Excerpt from My Women’, Your Impossible Voice, 2023
Yuliia Iliukha, ‘Two stories from My Women’, Another Chicago Magazine, 2023
Yuliia Iliukha, ‘My Women’, 128 Lit, 2023
Artur Dron, ‘The Mother’, Lunch Ticket, 2023
Artur Dron, ‘The First Letter to the Corinthians’, Circumference, 2023
Kateryna Yehorushkina, ‘How Much Water to the End of this War?’, PEN Ukraine, 2023
Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, ‘A Part of Something’, Catamaran, Issue 39, Winter 2023
Markiyan Kamysh, ‘On Ukrainian Chornobyl, Which We Have Lost—for Now’, BOMB, 2022
Markiyan Kamysh, ‘Duckweed’, The Offing, Winter 2020
Markiyan Kamysh, ‘Prypiat Underground, or the Resurrection of a Dead Town’, Asymptote, April 2019
Kateryna Babkina, ‘Richard the Chickenheart’, The Washington Square Review, Spring 2018
Kateryna Babkina, ‘Happy Naked People’, Apofenie, Winter 2018
Serhiy Zhadan, ‘The Yellow Chinese Jeep’, Apofenie, Winter 2018
Serhiy Osoka, ‘The Bitter Smell of a Father’, The Adirondack Review, Summer 2018
Markiyan Kamysh, ‘The River’, Puritan, Fall 2018
Kateryna Babkina, ‘To the American with Ukrainian Grandparents’, The Off Assignment, November 2018

Residencies / Mentorships

Translating Ukraine Summer Institute 2024
British Center for Literary Translation Summer School, Ukrainian Workshop Bursary 2022
Bristol Translates Summer School, Multilingual Workshop Bursary 2022
The UK National Center for Writing, Emerging Translators Mentorship 2021-22

Related roles

Independent grant evaluator, House of Europe
Expert reader, ALTA
Member, The Society of Authors, ALTA, PEN America
Translator and Advisor for Ukrainian Translation Workshop Series, Stephen Spender Trust UK, 2022-23
Volunteer Translator and Ukrainian Language Coordinator, TED, 2012-17