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Marta Gosovska is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, supported by the Fulbright Research and Development Program. She is a translator, scholar of comparative literature, and Editor-in-Chief of the Foreign Department at Laboratoria Publishing House in Ukraine. She holds a Master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Studies from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and is currently working on her doctoral studies at the same institution.
Marta Gosovska has led translation initiatives at Laboratoria Publishing House, shaping the international presence of Ukrainian literature while continuing her extensive practice as a literary translator. Her translations from English into Ukrainian include works by Kate Fox, Horst Kaechele, Karmen Maria Machado, Judy Blume, Olivia Laing, and Lois Lowry, among others. She is also an active translator of Ukrainian literature into English, with excerpts published in the London Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Index of Censorship. Her recent projects include co-translation of A Ukrainian Christmas (Sphere, UK) and The Weapons of World War III: Ukrainian Experience. Her expertise lies in literary translation, comparative studies, publishing strategy, and the international promotion of Ukrainian literature.