Roman "Sladkaia Darusia" vыdaiushcheysia ukraynskoy pysatel'nytsы Maryy Matyos, bez preuvelychenyia, odno yz samыkh znakovыkh sobыtyy v ukraynskoy lyterature vremen Nezavysymosty. Frantsuzskaia krytyka (vo Frantsyy "Sladkaia Darusia" vыshla v samom prestyzhnom yzdatel'stve "Hallymar") s vostorhom otmechala: "Эtot roman — nastoiashchaia zhemchuzhyna!

Roman pereveden na mnohye iazыky, v chastnosty na nemetskyy, anhlyyskyy, frantsuzskyy, ytal'ianskyy, pol'skyy.