Tetyana Pyankova – 122th KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence

06 Apr Tetyana Pyankova – 122th KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence

During April and May, writer, editor, and marketing specialist Tetyana Pyankova is staying in KROKODIL’s House for Writers. She presented herself to the public at last night’s opening of the exhibition ‘Warsaw-Mariupol – Cities of Ruins, Cities of Struggle, Cities of Hope’ in the KROKODIL Center. The exhibition, which presents photographs of cities that were destroyed by two totalitarianisms: Warsaw – razed to the ground in 1944 and Mariupol – destroyed in 2022 due to Russian aggression, will be on display until June 30th in the KROKODIL Center. Follow our website and social networks for information about other events that will be organized with Tetyana during her stay.

Tetyana Pyankova is a writer, editor and marketing specialist. Since 2020 she has been working on the topic of the Genocide of the Ukrainian people in 1932-33. Her novel about the Genocide “Age of Red Ants”, was published by “Our Format” in 2022. She is also the author of the books “Crying Happiness” (2003), “Kiss in the fontanel” (2015), “Krolivna” (2016), “Culpa mea” (2016), “Sun on the Hem” (2017), “Other people’s sins” (2020). She is the art director of the Potion Literary Agency, and was executive director of the Carpathian Pegasus Festival (2015-2021). She is also organizer of creative literary and artistic events, performances, theatrical literary readings, master of painting Easter eggs. She collects authentic dolls.

Tetyana Pyankova’s stay as KROKODIL’s Writer-in-Residence is realized within the framework of the Spaces of Freedom project.
Association KROKODIL, as an independent organization from Belgrade with literary, artistic and socio-political activities has decided to provide shelter and support to Ukrainian literary creators on top of other activities related to Ukraine such as collecting humanitarian help for the City Perinatal center in Kharkiv etc. Being that a large number of Ukrainian writers have been offered similar programs in many European countries, we decided to open the doors of our residence for writers to all literary creators (including, besides prose writers and poets, also essayists, translators, editors, cultural journalists, comic book authors, theoreticians, columnists, singer-songwriters, rappers, spoken word performers, etc.).
This project of the Association KROKODIL is supported by: The European Cultural Foundation and Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Events with residents in KROKODIL Center are supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).