Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
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Midnight Flight Down High Castle Hill
Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began to publish his poetry in literary journals in 1982. In 1985, he and others founded the popular literary performance group “Bu-Ba-Bu,” which was a seminal part of the literary culture of the Eighties in Ukraine. He has published four books of poetry, and numerous essays and short stories. A novel, Recreations, was translated into English by Marko Pavlyshyn and published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Study Press in 1998. His works have been translated and published in Poland, Canada, the United States, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Russia and Finland. (updated 2006)
Michael M. Naydan is editor of Slavic and Eastern European Journal. He has published a book-length translation of Marina Tsvetaeva and Lina Kostenko and is now translating the work of Gregory Skovoroda for Pennsylvania State Press. (1994)