Helena Kernan

Helena Kernan is a literary translator of Ukrainian, among other languages, 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 to poetry, documentary films, witness testimonies and editorial pieces.