Andrukhovykh! (reading in Philadelphia, Oct 29)

[Sibelan Forrester]

Literature in the Booth Series
presents

An Evening of Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
featuring


YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH

*Patriarch, Bu-Ba-Bu*


Thursday

October 29, 2009

7PM

$5


A Ukrainian & English Language Event

The Ukrainian League of Philadelphia
23rd and Brown Sts.

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YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH, together with Viktor Neborak and Oleksandr Irvanets, 
belongs to 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 Songs for A Dead Rooster (2004) and 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). He is also the 
author of the essay collections 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).

His books have been translated and published in Poland, Germany, Canada, 
the USA, Hungary, Finland, Russia, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, 
Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bulgaria.  Three of his 
novels are available in English translation: Recreations (CIUS Press, 
1998), Perverzion (Northwestern University Press, 2005), and 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).

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