Helena Kernan

Helena Kernan is a literary translator working from Ukrainian, Russian, French and German into English. Originally from London, she has lived in several European cities including Kyiv, where she worked with the Theatre of Displaced People and the Centre for Civil Liberties. She has been involved in multiple international projects focused on theatre, documentation, witness and historical memory, and is now based in Berlin. She holds master’s degrees in Slavic Studies from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. In recent years she has developed a keen interest in translating contemporary Ukrainian drama.