Having first become known for her Facebook page documenting her time as a volunteer in the Donbas during the early stages of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Duda has since gone on to become a novelist, with her debut novel Daughter (2019) winning the 2022 Shevchenko National Prize for Literature, among other accolades.

Between 2003 and 2005, Duda studied at Kyiv International University, after which she embarked on a career as a translator, primarily of economic texts from English to Ukrainian.

During her time on the frontline, Duda began posting on Facebook under the pseudonym Tamara Horikha Zernya, going on to garner a large following.

[2][1] Since its publication, Daughter has been translated into English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, and Polish, and rights have been purchased to adapt it into a film.

[9] The story, set in the present day, follows Stanislava, a widowed mathematics professor whose husband was killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War, who returns to her hometown in Cherkasy Oblast to help a friend investigate the whereabouts of a missing bride.