Irena Karpa

Irena Karpa (Ukrainian: Ірена Карпа) was born in 1980; she is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and singer.

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Irena Karpa
Karpa in Gdansk, 2022
Born	(1980-12-08) December 8, 1980 (age 44) Cherkasy, Ukraine
Language	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Kyiv National Linguistic University
Period	since 1999
Notable awards	"Hranoslov" (1999)^[1] "Best Ukrainian Awards"^[1](2006)

Biography

Irena Karpa was born on 8 December 1980 in Cherkasy (Central Ukraine),^[2] and grew up in the Subcarpathian region (Prykarpattia).

Since 1999 she has been the frontwoman and songwriter of the band Faktychno Sami (later renamed Qarpa [uk]). Her first book was published in 2000 when she was a student at Kyiv National Linguistic University. In 2003 Karpa received a graduate's degree (magistar) in the English and French languages. After graduating she traveled Southeast Asia for a year. This sparked the appearance of her book Freud Would Cry.

From 2005 to 2008, she worked on TV (ICTV, Inter and MTV Ukraine). In 2004 she was a film director of Kyiv. Limited Edition, and in 2006 starred in Oleh Anpilohov's film Autism and A. Yakushenkov's film Compote.

Some of her works have been translated into Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and Russian.

On 13 October 2014, according to Euromaidan, the minister of culture of the self-proclaimed "republic of Donetsk" signed a death warrant ordering that she be shot for publishing a cartoon considered inappropriate.^{[citation needed]}

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Selected works

"Знес Паленого" (2000)
"50 хвилин трави" (2004)
"Фройд би плакав" (2004)
"Перламутрове Порно (Супермаркет самотності)" (2005)
"Bitches Get Everything" (2007)
"Супермаркет самотності. Перламутрове порно" (2008)
"Добло і зло" (2008)
"Цукерки, фрукти і ковбаси" (2010)
"Піца "Гімалаї"" (2011)
"З роси, води і калабані" (2012)

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