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Svitlana Pyrkalo
Svitlana Pyrkalo is a London-based writer, journalist, and translator who writes in Ukrainian, English, and Russian. She graduated from the Kyiv National University, linguistics faculty, and currently lives and works in Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom. She blogs about life in her borough on pyrkalo.com. She currently works for the EBRD as a press officer. Until April 2011, she was a distinguished journalist with the BBC Ukrainian service and presented the Friday interactive evening programme in Ukrainian from London. Pyrkalo was the originator of the BBC Ukrainian annual book prize.