Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych ( uk, Юрій Ігорович Андрухович) is a

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prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.

Biography

In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque, side-show, buffoonery» (Ukrainian: ''бурлеск, балаган, буфонада'') together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak. Yurii Andrukhovych is the father of the Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovych. Andruhovych's works have been translated and published in

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(separate books),

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, Sweden,

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(separate publications). Translations of Y. Andrukhovich's works into foreign languages were published by the following publishing houses: Wydawnictwo Czarne (Poland), Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany), Knihovna Listů, Fra, Vĕtrné Mlyny (

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), BAUM, Kalligram, Absynt (

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), József Attila Kör, Ráció, Gondolat (Hungary), Polirom, ALLFA (

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), Klio (

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), Cankarjeva Založba (

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), Fraktura (Croatia), "Парадокс" (

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), "Македонска реч" (

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Political views

Andrukhovych writes in

and is known for his pro-Ukrainian and pro-European views. In his interviews, he said that he respected both the Ukrainian and Russian languages and claims that his opponents do not understand that the very survival of the Ukrainian language is threatened. During the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine he signed, together with eleven other writers, an open letter in which he called Sovietic

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: "language of pop music and criminal slang".

Literary work

To date, Andrukhovych has published five novels, four poetry collections, a cycle of short stories, and two volumes of essays, as well as literary translations from English, German,

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, and Russian. Some of his writings for example,

The Moscoviad ''The Moscoviad'' ( uk, Московіада) is a 1993 novel by the Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych. His second novel, it was translated from the original Ukrainian into English by Vitaly Chernetsky in 2009. It may be regarded as a part of ...

and Perverzion were carried out in a distinct postmodern style. A list of some of his major works includes: *'' The Sky and Squares'' (Небо і площі, 1985), a book of poems *'' On the Left, Where the Heart Is'' (Зліва, де серце, 1989), a cycle of short stories *'' Downtown'' (Середмістя, 1989), a book of poems *'' Exotic Birds and Plants'' (Екзотичні птахи і рослини, 1991), a book of poems *''Recreations'' (Рекреації, 1992), first novel *''

'', (Московіада, 1993), a novel *'' Perverzion'' (Перверзія, 1996), a novel *''

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'' (Дезорієнтація на місцевості, 1999), a book of essays *''

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'' (Моя Європа, 2001), a book of essays co-authored with the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk *''

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'' (Дванадцять обручів, 2003), a novel *'' Songs for the Dead Rooster'' (Пісні для мертвого півня, 2004), a book of poems *'' The Day Mrs Day Died'' (День смерті Пані День, 2006), an anthology of Ukrainian translations of

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from the 1950s and 1960s *'' The Devil's Hiding in the Cheese'' (Диявол ховається в сирі, 2006), a book of essays *'' The Secret. Instead of a Novel'' (Таємниця. Замість роману, 2007), a novel made up of interviews * "Majdan! Ukraine, Europa", 2014, collection of essays with Yaroslav Hrytsak and others (in German). * "Lovers of Justice", (Коханці юстиції, 2017), a novel * Radio Night, (Радіо Ніч, 2020), a novel

Awards and honors

For his literary writings and activity as a public intellectual, Andrukhovych has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Herder Prize (2001), the

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Peace Prize (2005), the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (2006), the

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(2006), the

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(2014), and the

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(2016). He is a member of the editorial board of Ukrainian periodicals ''

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'' and ''Potyah 76''. He is also a juror for the

Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award The Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (Polish: ''Międzynarodowa Nagroda Literacka im. Zbigniewa Herberta'') is a Polish international literature prize established in 2013 in Warsaw and named after a Polish poet, essayist, and morali ...

References

External links

Virtual card

Who is who – Andrukhovych Yurii
(from internet-magazine ''Vgolos'') (in Ukrainian)
Biography from the international literature festival berlin

Yurii Andrukhovych essays in ''Dzerkalo Tyzhnia''

Selected poetry by Andrukhovych in Ukrainian

Biography page for Andrukhovych
at the website of his German publisher,

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The information page on Andrukhovych
at the website of the

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Press, which published the English translation of his first novel, ''Recreations''
Andrukhovych's acceptance speech
for the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding
An Open Letter from Twelve Apolitical Writers about Choice and the Elections

Author's reading of selected poetry and prose extracts, and interview in Ukrainian and English
at the

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, USA, 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrukhovych, Yurii 1960 births Living people Writers from Ivano-Frankivsk Ukrainian Academy of Printing alumni Ukrainian male poets Postmodern writers Ukrainian translators Ukrainian non-fiction writers Ukrainian essayists Male essayists Ukrainian male writers Translators of William Shakespeare Herder Prize recipients Counterculture of the 1990s