Maryna Sokolyan is a
Ukrainian author. The critical reviews define her work as “uncommon event in a contemporary fiction”, and draw attention to the exquisite and well-cultivated language and to the complex intellectual references towards English literature. She was born 18 December 1979 in
Poltava, in the
Ukrainian SSR of the
Soviet Union (in present-day
Ukraine). In 2002 she graduated from
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with an MA in
Sociology.