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Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych will present "My Ultimate Territory: A Writer Reflects about East Central Europe" at 2:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in the Hall Auditorium Green Room. His talk is sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies annual lecture.
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. In 1985 he founded "Bu-Ba-Bu" (Burlesque-Bluster-Buffoonery), a performance group that had a lasting influence on the Ukrainian literary scene.
His essays regularly appear in Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly) – he translates them himself from Ukrainian to Russian for the newspaper, which publishes every issue in both languages. He is a member of the editorial board of Ukrainian periodicals Krytyka and Potyah 76.
Andrukhovych has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Herder Award of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation for cultural achievements in Eastern Europe (2001), the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (2005) and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for European Understanding (2006).
His talk is free and open to the public. For more information contact Vitaly Chernetsky, assistant professor of Russian, at chernev@muohio.edu.
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