Natalia Belchenko, also spelled Beltchenko[1] (born 7 January 1973) is a Ukrainian poet and translator.
[2] Belchenko is a laureate of several awards, including the Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (2000) and the National Writer’s Union of Ukraine Mykola Ushakov Prize in Literature (2006).
[1] In 2017 she won a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Gaude Polonia” program.
[2][3] Her poems have been translated into German, French, English, Bulgarian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Hebrew.
[1] She has translated, among others, works by Vasyl Makhno, Marianna Kiyanovska, Olesya Mamchich, Yuriy Izdryk, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz[1] and Bolesław Leśmian.