Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series

Cosponsored by the Kennan Institute and the
Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University

“Werwolf Sutra”
Yuriy Andrukhovych

poet and novelist, Ivano-Frankivsk

Yuriy Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 1985, together with Viktor Neborak and Oleksandr Irvanets, he founded the popular literary performance group "Bu-Ba-Bu" (Burlesque-Bluster-Buffoonery). He has published four poetry books — Sky and Squares (1985), Downtown (1989), Exotic Birds and Plants (1991, new editions 1997 and 2002) and The Songs for A Dead Rooster (2004). Andrukhovych`s prose works, the novels Recreations (1992, new editions 1997, 2003, 2004), Moscoviada (1993, new editions 1997 and 2000), Perverzion (1996, new editions 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004),   12 Rings (2003) and Mystery (2007) have had a great impact on readers in Ukraine. Andrukhovych also writes literary essays (collected in Disorientation in Locality, 1999 and The Devil is in the Cheese, 2006). Together with Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk he published My Europe (2000 and 2001). Yuriy Andrukhovych’s books are translated and published in Poland, Germany, Canada, USA, Hungary, Finland, Russia, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Croatia and Bulgaria.  Three of Yuriy Andrukhovych’s novels are available in English translation: Recreations (CIUS Press, 1998), Perverzion (Northwestern University Press, 2005), The Moscoviad (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2008). He is the laureate of four prestigious international literary awards: Herder Preis (Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Hamburg, 2001), Erich-Maria Remarque Friedenspreis (Osnabrück, 2005), Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung (2006), Central-European Literary Award „Angelus“(Wroclaw, 2006).

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
6:00 to 8:00 P.M.

Reception is graciously sponsored by The Washington Group and will begin at 5:30 P.M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location:
Woodrow Wilson Center
6th Floor Auditorium
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC

Please RSVP
 to Lidiya.Zubytska@wilsoncenter.org    or call (202) 691-4243. Please bring an identification card with a photograph (e.g. driver's license, work ID, or university ID) as part of the building's security procedures.