Independent researcher
Kseniya Kharchenko is a Ukrainian writer, culture manager, and translator based in Vienna, Austria. Member of PEN Ukraine. She received her MA from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Institute of Journalism and, in 2024, pursued her studies at the University of Vienna. From 2022 until 2024, she was a project manager of the Documenting Ukraine program, co-founded by Prof. Dr. Timothy Snyder at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna). This program is aimed to create a comprehensive record of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Before moving to Austria in 2022, she delivered several award-winning bestselling books as a production manager of Ukrainian nonfiction at Yakaboo Publishing, a publisher under Ukraine’s largest online book platform.
In 2005, her debut novel, History, received an award from Suchasnist, an acclaimed Ukrainian magazine focused on art, culture, and public affairs. Kseniya Kharchenko has also published in numerous Ukrainian and international outlets. Her recent publications include an essay, Windows, Open and Shut, in an anthology, We Who Have Changed, released in 2024 in German and English by IST Publishing (Ukraine) and Spector Books (Germany). Together with film director Juri Rechinsky, she co-wrote a script for the documentary Dear Beautiful Beloved. Premiered at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival, with further screenings at Human Rights Films Festival Berlin, Viennale, IDFA, and more.
Participated in various residency programs, e.g. residency program at the International Writers’ and Translators’ House (Latvia) in 2014, Gaude Polonia, a residency program of Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) in 2012, Lahti International Writer’s Reunion, International Literary Festival (Finland) in 2009, Kurzstipendien Residency Program, Internationales Haus der Autoren Graz (Austria) in 2008, and Homines Urbani Residency Program at Villa Decius (Poland) in 2007.