Biography
Artem Chapeye (Артем Чапай) is a Ukrainian writer, reporter, translator and activist. He writes creative nonfiction as well as popular fiction. He is a four–time finalist of the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award.
He had a career breakthrough when his second book TRAVELING WITH MAMAYOTA: IN SEARCH OF UKRAINE (2011) was shortlisted for the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award. He was also recognised for his near–future dystopia THE RED ZONE (2014), migration novel THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (2015), short story collection THE UKRAINE (2018), and post–apocalypse THE WEATHERING (2021).
An avowed pacifist and a volunteer translator of Ghandi, he nevertheless decided to join the armed resistance against Russian invasion in 2022.