Today we celebrate the birthday famous Ukrainian writer, one of the most influential creators of modern Ukrainian literature – Juriy Andruhovych. In August 2016, he received the Goethe Medal for having had a hand in "migration culture" - because of his works and translations. Andruhovych - the person who is the personification of "Ukrainian identity." Moreover, many of the current events in Ukraine, he predicted back in 2010.
Juriy Andruhovych was born on 13th of March, 1960 in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) attended the special school number 5 in-depth study of the German language. Learned as the editor in the Ukrainian Printing Institute in Lviv. He worked in the newspaper, he served in the army. In 1994 he defended his thesis on the works forbidden in Soviet times Ukrainian poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych.
Many know Andruhovych as a leader of thepoetic group Bu-Ba-Bu ( "Burlesque, buffoonery, balagan"). Its work was a response to the social events of the 1980s, the semi-official opposition to existing literature.
Together with colleague Yuri Izdryk they began to publish the first in Ukraine postmodern magazine "Thursday".
was the- author of the novels "Recreations", "Moskoviada," "Perversion", books of poetry and essays. In addition, he translated into the Ukrainian "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, the works of German and American poets. Themselves writer's works also were repeatedly translated.
Juriy Andruhovych during euromaidan read "The task 5.12" from the artistic community, which was addressed to the authorities and the opposition, which urged them to allow people to just live and build their country.
"Because we all live like this, that if we do not enter the daily fight against monsters, we absorb. No matter what - or personalized swollen to the size of whole countries. "
Happy Birthday, Yuri! Wish you health, inspiration and harmony.
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