Jutta Lindekugel holds a PhD in Slavic studies. She lived in Ukraine and Switzerland and only recently returned to Germany. She has published a number of academic and journalistic articles in German journals and translated short stories, poetry, and essays, mainly by such Ukrainian authors as Ivan Malkovych, Natalka Sniadanko, Halyna Pahutjak, and Max Kidruk. She is currently leading a project of the association Translit, presenting Ukrainian children’s books to the German-speaking public.