Irena Karpa

Irena Karpa
Karpa in Gdansk, 2022
Born	(1980-12-08) December 8, 1980 Cherkasy, Ukraine
Language	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Kyiv National Linguistic University
Period	since 1999
Notable awards	"Hranoslov" (1999) "Best Ukrainian Awards" (2006)

Irena Karpa (Ukrainian: Ірена Карпа; born 8 December 1980 in Cherkasy) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and singer.

Biography

Born in Cherkasy (Central Ukraine), Karpa grew up in Subcarpathian region (Prykarpattia).

Since 1999 she has been the frontwoman and songwriter of the band Faktychno Sami (later renamed "Qarpa"). Her first book was published in 2000 when she was a student at Kyiv National Linguistic University. In 2003 Karpa received a graduate's degree (magistar) in the English and French languages. After graduating she traveled Southeast Asia for a year. This sparked the appearance of her book Freud Would Cry.

From 2005 to 2008, she worked on TV (ICTV, Inter and MTV Ukraine). In 2004 she was a film director of Kyiv. Limited Edition, and in 2006 starred in Oleh Anpilohov's film Autism and A. Yakushenkov's film Compote.

Some of her works have been translated into Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and Russian.

On 13 October 2014, according to Euromaidan, the minister of culture of the self-proclaimed "republic of Donetsk" signed a death warrant ordering that she be shot for publishing a cartoon considered inappropriate.

Personal life

On May 17, 2008, Karpa married journalist and writer Anton Friedland, but in 2009 they divorced. In September she married an American financier Norman Paul Hansen. They have two daughters.

Literary works

• "Знес Паленого" (2000)
• "50 хвилин трави" (2004)
• "Фройд би плакав" (2004)
• "Перламутрове Порно (Супермаркет самотності)" (2005)
• "Bitches Get Everything" (2007)
• "Супермаркет самотності. Перламутрове порно" (2008)
• "Добло і зло" (2008)
• "Цукерки, фрукти і ковбаси" (2010)
• "Піца "Гімалаї"" (2011)
• "З роси, води і калабані" (2012)

See also

• Contemporary Ukrainian literature

External links

• Official page
• Blunt, erotic and obnoxious writing by Irena Karpa
• Irena Karpa on goodreads.com
• Karpa's LiveJournal
• Irena Karpa on msbrand.net