Matios, Maria: - Maria Matios (Марія Матіос; born 19 December 1959) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist and official.
In the 2014 Ukrainian election Matios was re-elected as a deputy in the Ukrainian parliament..
She was the winner of the Book of the Year 2004 prize and of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia).
Maria Matios bases her books on the unique experiences of her family, whose roots go back as far as 1790.
In 1992 she published her first prose in Kyiv Magazine.
Her first poems were published when she was fifteen years old.
Her prose works have been translated into Russian, Polish, English, Serbian, and Belorussian.
She authored 12 volumes of fiction and poetry, including the novel Sweet Darusia (2003), and the collections of stories titled The Short Life (2001) and Nation (2002).
She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovina region, and presently resides in Kyiv.
Matios, Maria: - Maria Matios (Марія Матіос; born 19 December 1959) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist and official
