Halyna Pahutiak

Pahutiak was born in Zalokot, a village in the Drohobych region of Lviv Oblast in Western Ukraine. When she was a small child, her parents moved to Urizh, not far from the birthplace of the nineeenth-century Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. After gaining a degree in Ukrainian philology from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she returned to her hometown and settled in Lviv.[1] She published her first books during the Soviet era. She was very persistent and always went against the will of the publishers, not afraid to criticize Soviet customs. Nevertheless, the book "Master" (1986), published by the Kyiv publishing house "Soviet Writer", was published with a fantastic and for today's Ukraine circulation of 65 thousand copies.

The main character of Notes of a Little White Bird (1999) is a speechless woman, attuned to the plight of women whose children have died or a yet unborn, searching for a rapprochement between her self and language.[3]

Pahutiak's story 'Avantiurkik z Urozha' (Adventurer from Urizh) deploys the genre of reconstruction reportage, opening with present-day experiences and memories before shifting smoothly to a seventeenth-century setting.

In 2015, an excerpt from the work of Halyna Pagutyak was used in the tasks of external independent evaluation (EIE) in the Ukrainian language without the author's permission. In five tasks (№ 29-33) it was necessary to analyze the philosophical text on the topic: "The small way is not for people…" and to give an answer to what the author wanted to say. In her open letter, Halyna Pagutyak called these tasks "absurd and an insult to the author's text."[4]

Pahutiak's vampire fiction has received particular critical attention.[5]

• Dariya Khokhel (2015). "Magic of the Out-of-Body Experiences in Contemporary Fantasy: Halyna Pahutiak, Susanna Clarke" (PDF). Bohemica Litteraria. 18 (2).