The Flying Head (10)

Abstract

Born in i960 in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk where he still resides, Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's premier writers and the patriarch of the Bu-Ba-Bu literary performance group that reenergized Ukrainian literary culture in the late 1980s and 1990s. He is the recipient of the Herder Prize (2001) and the Antonovych Prize (2001) in literature. His four published novels include Recreations (1992), Moskoviada (1993), Perverzion (1996), and The Twelve Rings (2003). He has authored four books of poetry and a book of essays, Disorientation in Locality (1999). Translations of his poetry and prose have appeared in many literary journals in North America and Europe. Andrukhovych is also an accomplished translator of the Beat Generation writers, the New York School poets, and Shakespeare's Hamlet into Ukrainian, and he is the literary editor of the cyberjournal Train-76.