Irena Karpa is one of the brightest and most read Ukrainian contemporary writers. After the word she does not get into her pocket and sometimes extracts whole books from there, and some of them can even be safely called highly artistic works. One way or another, Irena Karpa will surely go down in the history of literature at the beginning of this millennium. In addition, Irena is a very original singer. She is a soloist and lyricist of the band “Qarpa”, whose music is a very impressive “rattling
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Irena Karpa is one of the brightest and most read Ukrainian contemporary writers. After the word she does not get into her pocket and sometimes extracts whole books from there, and some of them can even be safely called highly artistic works. One way or another, Irena Karpa will surely go down in the history of literature at the beginning of this millennium. In addition, Irena is a very original singer. She is a soloist and lyricist of the band “Qarpa”, whose music is a very impressive “rattling mixture” of industrial, hardrock, punk rock and psychedelic trip-hop. In addition, Karpa starred in erotic photo shoots for the magazines “Playboy”, “Penthouse”, “FHM”.
Irena was born on December 8, 1980 in Cherkasy. Then her family moved to Ivano-Frankivsk, and then to the picturesque Carpathian town of Yaremche. There Irena Karpa successfully studied at the art school. In 1998, Irena entered the Kiev National Linguistic University for the Department of French Philology, received a master’s degree, worked for a long time in journalism, and then went on free bread. Irena Karpa published her works in the cult Ukrainian edition “Thursday”. In 1999, she received the Grand Prix of the International Competition of Young Writers “Granoslov”. The first book of Karpa was the work “Znes Paleny”, which was published in 2000 in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Irena traveled throughout Southeast Asia for a year, the result of which was her most famous novel “Froyd Bi Weeping”. The works “Pearl porn”, “Bitches Get Everything”, “Good and Evil” have been translated into different languages. In 2006, Irena Karpa received the award “Best Ukrainian Awards 2006” in the nomination “The most fashionable writer”.
In 2008, Irena married journalist and writer Anton Friedland, but a year later the family broke up, and the writer married the American financier Norman Paul Hansen, who gave birth to a daughter Corena-Gia. In 2009, Karpa began conducting master classes in cooking and Thai massage at Krugosor.
On November 5, 2011, Irena Karpa’s book “Pica Himala».” was published.