Oksana Lushchevska (*17 February 1982, Talne) is a Ukrainian children's books writer, translator, and poet. She is an active member of PEN Ukraine. Oksana is the author of over 50 children’s and young adult books. Her books were awarded several Ukrainian children’s literature awards. Some were included in the White Raven Catalogue and shortlisted for the BBC Ukraine Children’s Book Award. She won the Earth and Sky Poetry Contest funded by the Gloucester Culture Trust in 2020 and held in Charlotte, NC.
Oksana’s books are translated into 6 languages and published in 8 countries.
Oksana is the official Ukrainian translator of Eric Carle’s children’s books and Julia Donaldson’s funny poetry books for children.
She served as USBBY (United States Board on Books for Young People) children’s books reviewer, and a scholar, she contributed to School Library Journal, the Children’s Literature Assembly, Journal of Children’s Literature, The Bookbird, and the Seven impossible Things Before Breakfast Blog.
She is currently a children’s literature consultant and a creative curator on STORY+I Creative Workshop Group.
Oksana lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
Education Oksana has a PhD in Education and has taught children’s literature courses at the University of Georgia. She completed a master's degree in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Children's Literature from the Pennsylvania State University. She received her B.A. in Ukrainian Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, and World Literature from Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.
Bibliography
Children's books
Quiet Night, My Astronaut. Thomaston: Tilbury Publishers, 2023 Blue Skies and Golden Fields: Celebrating Ukraine. North Mankato: Capstone Publishers, 2022 About A Whale. Lviv: Old Lion Publishing House, 2014 The Other Home. Lviv: Old Lion Publishing House, 2013 The Caroling Wolf. Kyiv: Bratske, 2013 The Best Friends. Lviv: Old Lion Publishing House, 2012 Salty and Master Chef Tarapata. Kyiv, Grani-T, 2012 Seva and Co. Ternopil, Navchalna Knyha – Bohdan, 2011 Penpals. Lviv: Old Lion Publishing House, 2011 Golden Wheel of a Year. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2011 Escape. Kyiv: Grani-T, 2011 Oksana Lushchevska about Christopher Columbus, John Newbery, Charles Darwin, Chaika Dniprova, Pearl S. Buck. Kyiv: Grani-T, 2011 Christmas Stories. Kyiv: Grani-T, 2010 Strange Chimerical Creatures, or Secrets of the Antique Chest. Kyiv: Grani-T, 2009
Awards
2017 The Wind from Under the Sun was included in the prestigious White Ravens catalog of the world's 200 best children's books 2012 The Great Hedgehog Award Nominee 2011 Ukrainian Book of the Year Nominee 2009 Smoloskyp Literary Foundation Award 2008 Golden Stroke Ukrainian Children's Literature Contest Award 2007 Granoslov Award
References
External links
Oksana Lushchevska biography on the Enchanted Lion Books website Conversation with Oksana on Capstone Publishers website Oksana Lushchevska biography on the My Bookshelf Publishers website Oksana Lushchevska biography on the Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva website Oksana Lushchevska's books on Amazon Oksana Lushchevska's article on School Library Journal website