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Editor’s Welcome
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Prose writer and translator
Sofia Andrukhovych
(Софія
Андрухович, born in Ivano-Frankivsk, 1983) bears
the blessing and curse of being the daughter of one of
Ukraine’s most prominent writers Yuri Andrukhovych (see
below). In her early career she wrote in a highly candid
autobiographical and confessional style, particularly
in her collections
Wives of their Husbands
(2005) and
Salmon
(2007). She has shifted focus in her latest novel
Felix Austria
to a more measured tone with great attention
to historical and period detail. It is also worth noting that
she (with Viktor Morozov) accomplished a highly inventive
and extremely popular translation of
Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire
into Ukrainian.
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Yuri Vynnychuk
(Юрій Винничук, born in Ivano-Frankivsk,
1952) is one of Ukraine’s most prolific writers – a superb
storyteller and satirist. He emerged from the Lviv
underground with his first collection of short stories/
novellas
The Flashing Beacon
in 1990. Since then he has
been somewhat of a chameleon, taking on multiple voices