Andrii Liubka


Andriy Lyubka (1987) — Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist. He graduated from Mukachevo Military School, Ukrainian philology at Uzhgorod University and Balkan studies at the University of Warsaw. The author of the books of poetry: "Eight Months of Schizophrenia" (Uzhgorod, 2007), "The Terrorism" (Lviv, 2009), «40 Dollars Plus the Tips» (Lviv, 2012); collection of short stories: "The Killer" (Lviv, 2012), collection of poems in German translation «Notaufname» (Austria, Innsbruck, 2012), book of essays “Sleeping with Women” (2014), novel “Karbid” (2015, short-listed to top-5 books of the year by BBC Ukraine; Polish translation was short-listed to the Central-European award Angelus in 2017; Slovenian translation was published in Ljubljana in 2019, English translation was published in London in 2020), collection of short stories “The Room for Sadness” (2016), book of essays «Saudade» (2017), novel “Your Gaze, Cio-Cio-san” (2018), travel essay about the Balkans “In search of barbarians” (2019), novel “The Small Ukrainian Novel” (2020) фтв book of essays "Something is wrong with me" (2022). The winner of the prizes “Debut” (2007), “Kyiv Laurels” (2011), recently he received literary award of Kovalev Foundation (USA) and became a laureate of Shevelov Prize for the best book of essays of 2017 in Ukraine. He is the member of Ukrainian PEN. He is also the translator from Polish, Croatian, Serbian, English and the curator of two international poetry festivals. He is an active volunteer who helps the Ukrainian army, including organizing the purchase and delivery of nearly 200 jeeps to the Ukrainian armed forces. Lives in Uzhgorod.

Events
Львівський книжковий ярмарок «Форум видавців»
15-19 вересня 2021 р