Yuriy Tarnawsky
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Yuriy Tarnawsky is one of the founding members of the New York Group, a Ukrainian émigré avant-garde group of writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Novi Poeziyi (New Poetry; 1959–1972). He writes fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism in both Ukrainian and English. His works have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian.
[edit] Biography
He was born in 1934 in Turka in Western Ukraine. In 1952 he emigrated to the U.S., where he attended Newark College of Engineering. Upon graduating, he took a job with IBM, where he worked first as an electronic engineer and then a computer scientist. He lived in Spain between 1964-65. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from New York University in 1982. He retired from IBM in 1992. From 1993-96, he was professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture in the Department of Slavic Languages as well as co-coordinator of Ukrainian Studies at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Life in the City (1956, poetry, Ukrainian)
- Roads (1961, novel, Ukrainian)
- Without Spain (1969, poetry, Ukrainian)
- Questionnaires (1970, poetry, Ukrainian)
- This Is How I Get Well (1978, poetry, English and later Ukrainian)
- Meningitis (1978, novel, English, Fiction Collective)
- U ra na (1992, book-length poem, Ukrainian)
- Three Blondes and Death (1993, novel, English, Fiction Collective 2)
- 6x0 (1998, collected plays, Ukrainian, Rodovid)
- An Ideal Woman (1999, poetry, Ukrainian)
- The City of Sticks and Pits (1999, book-length poem, Ukrainian)
- They Don't Exist (1999, collected poetry 1970–1999, Ukrainian, Rodovid)
- I Don't Know (2000, selected fiction, Ukrainian, Rodovid)
- Like Blood in Water (2007, collection of mininovels, English, Fiction Collective 2) (forthcoming)
