Helena Kernan

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 to poetry, documentary films, witness testimony, and editorial pieces. In 2024 she was chosen as a participant in the inaugural Translating Ukraine Summer Institute held in Wrocław, Poland.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Maksym Kryvtsov,  ‘Amid voicing’
Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘My head rolls from tree to tree’
Maksym Kryvtsov, ‘Nikita, read this prayer at least once per day, carry it with you in your pocket.’
Olha Matsiupa, A Topography of the Body

Contact: helena.r.k@hotmail.co.uk

Tanya Savchynska

• Translator: Tanya Savchynska• Translators

Tanya Savchynska is a literary translator working between Ukrainian and English. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. She was a 2019 resident at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Canada and a 2023 resident at the Art Omi Translation Lab in the US. Her writing and translations have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Apofenie, and elsewhere. Her translation of Kateryna Zarembo’s Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s was published by Academic Studies Press in 2024.

Martin Lohrer
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Culture as Security

• Issue 5 (October 2025)

This issue of the London Ukrainian Review takes a look at culture as a matter of national security. Highlighting the voices of cultural figures who defend Ukraine with arms, it also examines culture as a tool of Russia’s imperialist expansion, all the while insisting on a bond between cultural familiarity and political solidarity.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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