Andriy Lyubka (, born 3 December 1987 in

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) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He grew up in

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, in South-Western Ukraine, and then enrolled at the

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, where he studied Ukrainian Philology. His second master's degree in Balkan Studies was received from

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in 2014. Lyubka currently lives in

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.The war overwhelmed everything: how Andriy Lyubka threw literature and sat on the "needle of volunteering"

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(24 December 2022)

Literary work

Lyubka is the author of four collections of poetry, one book of short stories, ''Saudade'', and six novels. His novel ''Carbide'' depicts the daily life of smugglers in

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. He also translates prose and poetry from Polish, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, and English. Additionally, he is a columnist for Ukrainian and European journals, Newspapers and media outlets, '' Nowa Europa Wschodnia / New Eastern Europe'', ''

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Publications

Poetry

* ''Eight Months of Schizophrenia'' (Вісім місяців шизофренії). Uzhhorod 2007. * ''Terrorism'' (ТЕРОРИЗМ). Uzhhorod 2008. * ''Forty Bucks Plus Tip'' (Сорок баксів плюс чайові). Chernivtsi 2012. ** ''Notaufnahme''. German transl. of poems by Team.BAES-low-lectured. BAES, Innsbruck 2012. * (together with DJ Dimka Special-K) Before the explosion we will kiss (Перед вибухом поцілуємося). 2012.

Prose

* ''Killer'' (КІЛЕР. Збірка історій). Lviv, Piramida, 2012. 2nd augm. edition ''Killer+''. Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2018. ** ''Killer''. Transl. by

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. Biuro literackie, Wroclaw 2013. * ''Sleeping with women'' (Спати з жінками). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2014. * ''Karbid''. Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2015. ** ''Karbid''. Polish Transl. by

. Warsztaty Kułtury, Lublin 2016. ** ''Carbide''. English Transl. by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. London 2020. ** ''Karbidas''. Lithuanian Transl. by Donata Rinkevičienė. Sofoklis. Vilnius 2021 * ''A Room for Sorrow'' (Кімната для печалі). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2016. ** ''Pokój do smutku''. Polish Transl. by

. Lublin 2018. * ''Saudade'' (Саудаде). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2017. * ''Your glance, Cio-Cio-San'' (Твій погляд, Чіо-Чіо-сан)? Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2018. Lyubka's prose and poetry has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Turkish.

Book translations

;Translations from Polish *

, ''Night life'' (Ukrainian title: ''Нічне життя''). Piramida, Lviv (2012) *

, ''Worst behind'' (Ukrainian title: ''Найгірше позаду''). Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2015) * Lidia Ostałowska, ''Farby wodne'' (Ukrainian title: ''Акварелі''). Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2014) ;Translation from Serbian * Srđan Valjarevič, ''Комо''. Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2016) *

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, ''The Cyclist Conspiracy'' (Ukrainian title: ''Фама про велесопедистів''). Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2017) ;Translation from Bosnian * Muahrem Bazdulj, ''Konzert''. Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2018)

Articles in English

* ''In Search of Barbarians'', in: Issue 6/2016 of ''New Eastern Europe'', pp. 21–28, also online * ''Has the war really changed Ukrainians?'', in: Issue 5/2017 of ''New Eastern Europe'', pp. 63–69. * ''A barbarian in the besieged city'', in: Issue 5/2018 of ''New Eastern Europe'', pp. 63–69, also online

Interviews

* ''Russia is the problem'' (in German) * ''I am atheist - for me death is the end'' (in Ukrainian) * ''Vogue Interview'' from 03. Dezember 2016, also online * ''Literature supports us in a way'', in: ''Apofenie'' 16. September 2018, online

Curator

* Curator of Kyiv Laurels, an international poetry festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) * Curator of Meridian Czernowitz, an international poetry festival (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

Writer in residence

Lyubka has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Sweden and Austria. In 2017 he received the

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Fellowship for writers in Fellowship and stayed in Slovenia.

Awards

* Yuri Shevelov Award of the Ukrainian PEN Club for ''Saudade'' (2017) * Kovaliv Foundation literary prize (2017) * Kyiv Laurels (2011) * Debut (2007)

Secondary literature

* P. M. Khodanych, Art. Lyubka, Andriy, in: ''

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'' vol. 18 (2017) p. 306, also online * Reilly Costigan-Humes, Ukrainian Literature's Boy Wonder Goes West, in: ''The Odessa Review'' January Issue 2018, also online

References

External links

*
Biography of Andriy Lyubka at PEN International (Ukrainian branch) website

Literary Event: "Smuggling Ukraine Westward: A conversation with Ukrainian writer Andriy Lyubka" , at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, November 7, 2017, uploaded by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series: “Smuggling Ukraine Westward”, Woodrow Wilson Center, upl. 13.10.2017

Andriy Lyubka: Rediscovering Ukraine - Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Canadian Institute of Slavic Studies, upl. 22.08.2018
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