Viktoriya Ma

Victoria Matyusha (Victoria Ma) was born in Kyiv, graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in translation and a PhD in philology. Since 2004, she has been a Ukrainian simultaneous interpreter, providing high-level interpretation for heads of state, heads of government, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD and other international organisations. Since 2023, she has been a member of AIIC. Since 2019, she has been the executive director and founder of the OVO Literary Agency, which promotes contemporary Ukrainian authors both in Ukraine and abroad. So far, the agency has helped publish 45 books by new Ukrainian authors in various Ukrainian publishing houses. In 2022, she received the international Anna Droumeva Award as a promising young literary agent. She is a literary agent for the sale of foreign rights of Tamara Horikh-Zernya, Pavlo Matyusha, Kateryna Babkina, Serhiy Demchuk, Tatiana Vlasova and others. In 2024, together with Dawn Bouie and Pavlo Matiusha, she co-authored the book Lettres d'amour et de guerre, published in France by L'Iconoclaste.