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Mar/Apr 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 2 Poetry in Transylvania |

Painkillers and Sleeping Pills

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Kateryna Babkina is a Ukrainian writer, author of poetry collections St Elmo’s Fire (2002), The Mustard (2011), and Painkillers and Sleeping Pills (2014); short story collection Leloo After You (2008); and a novel titled Sonya (2013). The play Hamlet.Babylon was recently staged in Kiev and Geneva. Her poetry and prose have been translated and published in different collections and magazines in Poland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Romania, France, and USA.

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