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Yuri Andrukhovych

Yuri Andrukhovych, a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator in Ukrainian, is one of the most internationally and nationally influential figures of contemporary Ukrainian culture.

His literary career began in the 1980s when he founded the literary performance group Bu-Ba-Bu (named for the first syllables of the words for buffoonery, farce, and burlesque), which radically renewed Ukrainian poetry. Since tan, he has published five collections of poems, seven novels, and four books of essays which have had a great impact inside and outside the country, where they have been translated into twenty-two languages.

In Spanish, his essay “Revisión centreeuropea” has been published in the book Mi Europa (My Europe) which is jointly authored by Andrzej Stasiuk (2005), as well as the essay El último territorio (The Last Territory, 2006) and the novels, all published by Acantilado, Recreaciones (2007 – in English, Recreations, CIUS Press, 1998), Doce anillos (Twelve Rings, 2007), Moscoviada (2010 – in English, The Moscoviad, Spuyten Duyvil, 2008), and Pequeña enciclopedia de lugares íntimos (Small Encyclopaedia of Intimate Places, 2023).

Andrukhovych has received numerous national and international awards for his literary works and his activity as a public intellectual, among them the Herder Prize (2001), the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (2005), the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (2006), the Angelus Award (2006), the Hannah Arendt Prize (2014), and the Goethe Medal (2016).

 

Update: 27 January 2023

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Geopoetics of Europe