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A LITERARY PHOENIX STILL RISING:
UKRAINIAN WRITERS TODAY
The writers offered in this issue comprise a fairly small
sampling of a much larger and exciting literary resurgence.
A multitude of talented Ukrainian writers have emerged
from the middle of the 1980s, during the last years of
the Soviet era, straight through the nearly twenty-five-
year period of Ukrainian independence. In these pages
and our related media you can enjoy a great range, from
traditional master storytellers such as
Maria Matios
and
Yuri Vynnychuk
to cutting-edge Postmodernists such as
Yuri Andrukhovych
and
Serhiy Zhadan
. The intriguing
prose of younger generation writer
Tanya Malyarchuk
is
variegated and difficult to categorize. She and the other
younger prose writer included here,
Sofia Andrukhovych
,
appear as two of the stronger voices of their generation.
Ukraine has an extraordinarily strong poetic tradition. In
this issue we offer selections from the more traditionalist
poet
Natalka Bilotserkivets
as well as the wonderfully
idiosyncratic poet
Taras Melnychuk
. Two poets from the
younger generation are also featured –
Mariya Tytarenko
and
Oleh Kotsarev.