Jurij Andrukovič
/Ukraine, 1960Born in 1960 in Stanislav. In 1985, together with Viktor Neborak and Oleksand Irvanets, he founded the popular literary performance group Bu-Ba-Bu (Burlesque-Bluster Buffoneery), whose members are still active today. Military service in the Red Army in 1983 and 1984 inspired him to write army stories and a screenplay for the film Oxygen Starvation (1991). He studied at the Gorgy Institute for Literature in Moscow and later co-edited the journal Thursday (1991-96) and encyclopedia of contemporary Ukrainian writing Pleroma (1998). Poetry colletions: The Sky and City Squares (1985), Downtown (1989), Exotic Birds and Plants (1991). Novels: Recreations (1992), Moscoviada (1993) and Perversion (1996). A collection of essays Disorientation in Locality (1999).