Taras Prokhasko ukr. Тарас Богданович Прохасько (born May 16, 1968 in

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

) - Ukrainian novelist, essayist and journalist. Together with

Yuri Andrukhovych Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych ( uk, Юрій Ігорович Андрухович) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Biography In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque ...

a major representative of the Stanislav phenomenon. Writing of Taras Prokhasko is often associated with

magical realism Magical is the adjective for magic. It may also refer to: * Magical (horse) (foaled 2015), Irish Thoroughbred racehorse * "Magical" (song), released in 1985 by John Parr * '' Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations'', ...

, his novel «The UnSimple» has been compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Biologist by education Prokhasko's prose has been called to have features of "philosophy of a plant" for its dense and meditative character.Тарас Прохасько: ліричний ботан. Рецензія
/ref> Nephew of writer

Iryna Vilde Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk ( née Makohon; uk, Дарина Дмитрівна Полотнюк (Макогон); 5 May 1907 – 30 October 1982), better known by her pen name Iryna Vilde ( uk, Ірина Вільде), was a Ukrainian and Sovi ...

, brother of translator and essayist Yurko Prokhasko.

Biography

Taras Prokhasko studied botany at Lviv University. In 1989-1991 took part in student protests for the independence of Ukraine. After graduation he took different jobs at the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Karpathian Forestry, scholl teacher, bartender, animator on "Vezha" radio, art galleries, newspapers, on TV. In 1992-1994 he edited the avant-guarde literary journal "Chetver". In 1993 and 1994 he acted in short films "Flowers of St. Francis" and "Escape to Egypt" (winner of the Delyatyn video art festival). Worked as a journalist at "Express", "Postup", "Telekrytyka" and "Halytskyi korespondent" newspapers. In 2004 Prokhasko spent several months in Krakow on the «Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza — Homines Urbani» foundation scholarship.

Awards

* 1997 - Smoloskyp prize * 2006 - first prize for fiction from "Korespondent" journal * 2007 - third prize for documentary writing from "Korespondent" journal * 2007 - Joseph Conrad prize from the Polish Institute in Kyiv * 2013 - BBC Book of the Year, Litakcent roku for "Who will make the snow"

Bibliography

* Other Days of Anna (Інші дні Анни) * FM Halychyna (FM Галичина) * The UnSimple (НепрОсті) * Lexicon of Mysterious Knowledge (Лексикон таємних знань) * One Could Make Several Stories from This (З цього можна зробити кілька оповідань) * Port Frankivsk (Порт Франківськ) * «Ukraina» together with

Serhiy Zhadan Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan ( uk, Сергі́й Ві́кторович Жада́н; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist. Life and career ...

* «Galizien-Bukowina-Express» with Jurko Prokhasko and Magdalena Blashchuk * Cause it's This Way (БотакЄ) / * Who Will Make the Snow (Хто зробить сніг) with Maryana Prokhasko * One and the Same (Одної і тої самої) * Taras Prokhasko conducted a series of long interviews with contemporary Ukrainian writers and intellectuals (

Oleh Lysheha Oleh Lysheha ( uk, Олег Лишега; 30 October 1949 – 17 December 2014) was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participat ...

Yuriy Izdryk Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk (; born 16 August 1962) is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project ''Chetver'', also known as ''Thursday''. He wrote the novels ''The Island of Krk'' (1994), ''Wozzeck & Woczkurgia'' (19 ...

Oksana Zabuzhko Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko ( uk, Окса́на Стефа́нівна Забу́жко) is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. Her works have been translated into several languages. She has been accused of relativising the Volhynian Massac ...

Borys Gudziak Borys Gudziak (born 24 November 1960) is the current Archeparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. He founded the Institute of Church History and served as the rector and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University. He wa ...

Yaroslav Hrytsak Yaroslav Hrytsak ( ua, Ярослав Грицак; born 1 January 1960) is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences and professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Director of the Institute for Historical Studies of Ivan Franko ...

, Vasyl Herasymyuk), which were published in "The Other Format" book series * Yes but… (Так, але...) * Because it is so (Бо є так)

Translations

Prokhasko's writings were translated in English, German, Polish, Belarusian and Russian.

Texts available in English

* «Necropolis» in «Two Lands, New Visions» (1998) anthology * «The UnSimple», 2011
FM Galicia

Notes

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Biography of T. Prokhasko

Тарас Прохасько: ліричний ботан. Рецензія
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prokhasko, Taras 1968 births Living people Writers from Ivano-Frankivsk People of the Revolution on Granite Postmodern writers University of Lviv alumni Ukrainian essayists Male essayists Ukrainian male writers Counterculture of the 1990s