Irena Karpa. Born on 08 December 1980 in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Moved with the family first to Ivano-Frankivsk, then to the small mountain of town Yaremcha in the Carpathians. Attended a school of Arts with the subject of fine arts.
In 1998 entered Kyiv National Linguistic University (French Department) and got her master’s degree in philology in 2003.
Topic of the masters degree paper: “Manifestations of the Archetype of the Big Mother in the novels “Elementary Particles” by Michel Houellebecq and “The Double Lion” by Yurko Izdryk.” Approach - analytical psychology and mythocritics.
Since 1999 Irena is the front woman of the alternative music band Factychno Sami (Actually Alone). She composes the music and the lyrics, often outrageous, scandalous and sometimes quite symbolic, sexual and lyrical. The band has made a range of non-mainstream videos and published 4 albums. The music is a mixture, ranging from industrial, punk and hard core to psychedelic trip hop.
She won the Grand Prix of the Young Writers International Competition “Granoslov” in 1999.
In 2000 published her first book “Znes Palenoho”, containing the novel “50 Minutes of Grass”, and the short stories cycles “Jericho’s Dreams” and “Apologies of a Dead Man”.
After graduating from University she left Ukraine for about one year and spent the time traveling through South East Asia. That experience is partially described in the book “Freud Would Cry” (Folio, 2004).
Together with “Freud Would Cry,” the book “50 Minutes of Grass” was published by Folio as well. It contained one additional so-called interactive novel “Hunting in Helsinki”.
In 2004 Factychno Sami signed a 1 000 000 USD contract with Cypriot investors assuming their collaboration for 5 years. After the shooting of one “commercial” video (remake of an older non-commercial one) and several attempts to achieve a compromise making “music that is understandable to everyone and commercially successful,” the group decided to quit and keep on going by themselves.
In 2005 Karpa started working as a TV presenter. For the moment she works for MTV Ukraine as a news presenter.
Now in April 2005, Irena is ready with her latest novel “Pearl Porn”, while her group is working on their first English album “And I Made a Man”.
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