Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

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.

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