Yurii Andrukhovych

Yuri Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович, born March 13, 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) - Ukrainian prose writer, poet, and essayist. Co-founded the BuBaBu poetic group in 1985.

Literary work

To date, Andrukhovych has published four novels, four poetry collections, and two volumes of essays, as well as literary translations from English, german, Polish, and Russian. His essays regularly appear in Dzerkalo tyzhnia/Zerkalo nedeli (Mirror Weekly), an influential Ukrainian newspaper (published in both Ukrainian and Russian). Here is a list of some of his major works:

• The Sky and Squares, (1985), a book of poems
• On the Left, Where the Heart Is, (1989), a cycle of short stories
• Downtown, (1989), a book of poems
• ExoticBirds and Plants, (1991), a book of poems
• Recreations, (1992), a novel
• The Moscoviad, (1993), a novel
• Perverzion, (1996), a novel
• Disorientation on Location, (1999), a book of essays
• Twelve Rings, (2003), a novel
• Songs for the Dead Rooster, (2004), a book of poems
• The Devil Is in the Cheese, (2006), a book of essays

Political views

Andruhovych writes in Ukrainian and is known for his strongly Ukrainophile views, however he is rarely considered a Ukrainian nationalist, a charge he fiercely denies himself. In his interviews, he said that he respected both the Ukrainian and Russian languages and claims that his opponents don't understand that the very survival of the Ukrainian language is threatened. He translates his essays himself from Ukrainian into Russian for the Zerkalo nedeli which publishes every issue in both languages. Andrukhovych has been awarded numerous national and international prizes including the Herder Prize (2001), the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for European Understanding (2006), and the Angelus Prize (also 2006).

Novels

• Recreations (Рекреації, 1992)
• The Moscoviad (Московіада, 1993)
• Perverzion (Перверзія, 1996)
• Tweleve Rings (Дванадцять обручів, 2003)

External links

• "Andruhovych, but not fully", and article in Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), available online in Ukrainian and in Russian.
• Complete essays in Zerkalo nedeli by Yuri Andrukhovych: in Ukrainian (since 2000) and in Russian (since 1995)
• Biography page for Andrukhovych at the website of his German publisher, Suhrkamp: [1]
• The information page on Andrukhovych at the website of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, which published the English translation of his first novel, Recreations: [2]