Гаска Шиян

Haska Shyyan

A writer, translator, blogger, photographer. Born in 1980 in Lviv. Studied classical philology at Lviv University.

Being a co-owner of a bookshop in Lviv, she actively campaigns for elimination of non-transparent corruption schemes in textbooks purchase. She established an author’s course Creative Writing with Tilo Schulz: A story in a Weekend.

In 2014, Haska Shyyan’s debut novel Hunt, Doctor, Hunt! was published, a major part of which was written using the mobile phone while the author was temporarily bedridden. Behind the Back is her second novel.

Currently, Haska lives in Kyiv.