Andrukhovykh! (reading in Philadelphia, Oct 29)
Sibelan Forrester
sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU
Wed Oct 28 20:27:51 UTC 2009
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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