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Juri Andruchowytsch Foto: gezett
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Yuri Andrukhovych (*1960, Iwano-Frankiwsk, Ukraine) is amongst the most well-known authors of the “Eighties”, a generation of young writers who up until Perestroika published in the underground. He made his literary debut as a poet, and then became renowned for his novels, but has dedicated himself for some time anew to poetry. Andrukhovych, now as then, is one of the most well-known authors of his country, whose work is enjoying an ever stronger reception by the younger generation in Ukraine.
Since Ukraine's independence he began to become more strongly interested in politics, he was a co-founder of a literary-philosophical discussion series about 'Geopoetics', which also concerned itself with the political directions of the country. In Germany he is known beside his activities as an author, above all as an advocate of a European – instead of a Eurasian – direction in Ukraine.
In 1985 he cofounded the legendary literary performance group “Bu-Ba-Bu” (Burlesk-Balagan-Buffonada). His three novels, Rekreacij (1992), Moskoviada (1993) and Perverzija (1999), were translated into German, Polish and Russian. For the novel Twelve Rings (2005), Yuri Andrukhovych was awarded the Leipziger Book Prize for European Cultural Diplomacy in 2006.
Yuri Andrukhovych´s poetry, which until now consists of three anthologies, creates a carnivalistic, bizarre, almost monstrous circus-world, in which the borders between the physcial and the metaphysical blur.
He lives in Iwano-Frankiwsk.
Yuri Andrukhovych was a participant of the Literaturexpress Europa 2000. In 2001 he was awarded the Herder Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Hamburg.
Publications
Poetry
Nebo i ploschtschi (Heaven and Plazas), 1985
Seredmistja (Downtown), 1989
Exotytschni ptachi i roslyny (Exotic Plants and Birds), 1991
Exotytschni ptachi i roslyny s dodatkom „Indija“ (Exotic Plants and Birds with the Supplement ‘India’), 1997
Novels
Rekreaziji, 1992
Zwölf Ringe (Twelve Rings), Suhrkamp 2005
Geheimnis (Secret), Suhrkamp 2008
Perversion, Suhrkamp 2011