Olena Martyniuk

Journalist, artistic reporter, translator. Mostly working in the New Journalism style; Graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and the Journalism School of the Ukrainian Catholic University. I have been writing about people in war since the full-scale invasion: those who evacuate others and those who were evacuated themselves; military and veterans; volunteers and entrepreneurs. Won the European Commission's Megalizzi-Niedzielski prize for aspiring journalists for the text on Russian filtration camps near occupied Mariupol; mentor and editor of Youth for Regions 2024 in Brussels. Co-author of the book of artistic reportages on Eastern Ukraine "Startups of Good. People and Projects that Were Not Broken by the War". Currently working on memorial artistic reportages about fallen ukrainian soldiers and journalists. Megalizzi Niedzielski prize for Aspiring Journalists from the European Commission 2023