The New York Times’ list of the most anticipated foreign book releases of 2020 features “Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories,” a short story collection by Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko.
The “story collection touching on the Orange Revolution, sibling rivalry and tennis” includes eight short stories and was originally published in Ukrainian, the American newspaper writes in its Globetrotting book rating.
The editor and translator is Nina Murray. The translation team also includes Halyna Hryn, Askold Melnyczuk, Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban.
“At once intimate and worldly, these stories resonate with Zabuzhko’s irreverent and prescient voice, echoing long after reading,” Murray writes of the book.
Globetrotting is The New York Times’ annual preview of translated book releases, and 2020’s list includes 77 books from more than 40 countries around the world.
Oksana Zabuzhko is one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian writers and the author of more than twenty books. Among them are the novels “Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex,” which the Elit Profi research center calls “the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence,” and “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets,” recently put on the list of the 20 best novels of 21st century by the Swedish newspaper Tages Anzeiger.
Oksana Zabuzhko has received multiple prestigious international awards, including a MacArthur Grant in 2002, the Antonovych International Foundation Prize in 2008, the Order of Princess Olga in 2009 and the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2019.
