Hanna Leliv

Literary translator from Lviv, Ukraine.
Shortlisted for EBRD Literature Prize 2025.
Longlisted for the Drahomán Prize 2024.

Hello and welcome! I’m a literary translator working between Ukrainian and English. I mostly translate fiction and creative non-fiction—stories that resonate and give voice to what matters. I’ve brought Hemingway and Ishiguro into Ukrainian, and now I’m on a mission to help Ukrainian literature travel the other way, especially works written by women.

If you'd like to get in touch—about a project or just to say hello — please feel free to reach out by email or Facebook.

Qualifications

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