Artem Chapeye

An author of both creative nonfiction and popular fiction, Artem Chapeye was born and raised in the small western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, and has spent much of the last twenty years living in Kyiv. He is the author of two novels and four books of creative nonfiction, and is a coauthor of a book of war reportage. A four-time finalist of the BBC Book of the Year Award, his collection The Ukraine was one of three finalists in the award's new nonfiction category in 2018. Artem is an avid traveler who spent close to two years living, working, and traveling in the US and Central America—an experience that has greatly informed his writing. His work has been translated into seven languages, and has appeared in English in the Best European Fiction anthology and in publications such as Refugees Worldwide, translated by Marian Schwartz. Artem is a past recipient of the Central European Initiative Fellowship for Writers in Residence (Slovenia) and the Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators (Austria), as well as a finalist of the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He serves on the board of PEN Ukraine.