The novel "Felix Austria" by Ukrainian writer Sofiya Andrukhovych will be released in the USA in spring 2024. The book has been translated into English by Vitaliy Chernetsky. This information was announced in a message on the website of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
"Skillfully using the writing techniques associated with Gothic literature, in Felix Austria Sophia Andrukhovych reconstructs with astonishing detail the atmosphere and the everyday life of a period and space that have been long lost. As if foreshadowing the wars to come and their devastation, the city’s population delights in earthly pleasures that Andrukhovych meticulously describes: extravagant dinner parties and receptions, mass celebrations, exotic theater performances, art exhibitions, glitzy shows of stars and starlets from near and far, local rituals of soap making, competition among fashionable dames of the city, and much more. Felix Austria is a must-read for all those who seek to understand Ukraine’s deep ties with Western Europe and its struggle to break away from Russia’s orbit today."
Sophia Andrukhovych is an award-winning Ukrainian writer and translator, author of seven books of prose. Her novel Felix Austria was recognized with the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award (2014), Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Award (Poland-Ukraine, 2015), the Lesia and Petro Kovaliv Award (USA, 2015), and the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award (2017). In 2020, Andrukhovych’s most recent novel, Amadoka, received Ukraine’s Book of the Year Award.
The novel "Felix Austria" was first published in 2014 by the "Stary Lev" publishing house
