About Yurii Andrukhovych
Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych (Ukrainian: Юрій Ігорович Андрухович, pronounced [ˈjur⁽ʲ⁾ij ɐndrʊˈxɔwɪt͡ʃ]; born March 13, 1960), who spells his name as Yuri Andrukhovych in English, is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Andrukhovych is a representative of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of Ivano-Frankivsk postmodernist writers and co-founder of the poetic group Bu-Ba-Bu. In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque, side-show, buffoonery» (Ukrainian: бурлеск, балаган, буфонада) together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak. Andrukhovych writes in Ukrainian and is known for his pro-Ukrainian and pro-European views. He also authored the cultural review in Den newspaper and together with Yurko Izdryk founded Ukraine's first postmodernist journal. In 1996 Andrukhovych became Candidate of Sciences after submitting a thesis on the works of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych. His English pen name is Yuri Andrukhovych.
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