Yuri Andrukhovych (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yuri Andrukhovych (, born March 13, 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. With Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak, he co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group in 1985 (the group's name stands for,, --'burlesque, side-show, buffoonery'). Yuri Andrukhovych is the father of Sofia Andrukhovych, who following in her father's footsteps also became a writer. To date, Andrukhovych has published five novels, four poetry collections, a cycle of short stories, and two volumes of essays, as well as literary translations from English, German, Polish, and Russian. His essays regularly appear in Zerkalo nedeli (Mirror Weekly), an influential trilingual newspaper (published fully in Russian and Ukrainian with excerpts also published in an online English edition).