Helena Kernan
Literary translator, master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley
Helena Kernan is a literary translator of Ukrainian and holds master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from the UK, she has lived in several European cities, including Kyiv, where she worked with the Theatre of Displaced People and Centre for Civil Liberties, and is now based in Berlin.
She works with a wide variety of texts, from contemporary Ukrainian drama and poetry to documentary films, witness testimony and editorial pieces. She received an Honourable Mention in the Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize 2024 and is currently working on pieces by Maksym Kryvtsov and Olha Kobylianska.