Olena Sheremet

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Olena Szeremet, translator of Polish literature. Living and working in Kiev, while raising a nine-year-old son. 

Olena studied Polish studies at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev, at Institute of Philology. As a student, she was a scholarship holder at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw several times. Olena also participated in the 8th edition of the Eastern Winter School, organized by KEW im. Jan Nowak-Jeziorański in Wrocław, March 1-10, 2011. From 2014 to 2022, was working as a Polish language teacher at the Language School of the Polish Institute in Kiev. 

For years Olena has also been dealing with literary translation, translating ten books, including books for children, and a lot of journalistic or scientific texts published in magazines. She also was a participant of the International Translation Seminar in Wojnowice “Translators Without Borders” in 2018, 2021, 2022. 

Olena is Also publishing her own texts on Ukrainian and Polish reportage in the magazines “Radar”, “Krytyka”, “Litakcent”.