Andrij Stepanovyč Ljubka
Andriy Lyubka (born 3 December 1987 in Riga, Latvia) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He grew up in Vynohradiv, in South-Western Ukraine, and then enrolled at the Uzhhorod National University, where he studied Ukrainian Philology. His second master's degree in Balkan Studies was received from Warsaw University in 2014.
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Andrij Stepanovyč Ljubka

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- 1987 · Riga.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Ukraine
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- poet · writer · translator
- Education
- University of Warsaw
- Languages
- Ukrainian
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Andriy Lyubka (born 3 December 1987 in Riga, Latvia) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He grew up in Vynohradiv, in South-Western Ukraine, and then enrolled at the Uzhhorod National University, where he studied Ukrainian Philology. His second master's degree in Balkan Studies was received from Warsaw University in 2014.
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Andrij Stepanovyč Ljubka (born 1987) is a Soviet and Ukrainian poet, translator and writer. The poet was born in Riga.
Andrij Stepanovyč Ljubka studied at University of Warsaw. The poet is a member of PEN Ukraine. Languages used include Ukrainian.
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Lyubka currently lives in Uzhhorod.
• Illustration — ‘We Are Not on an Island’: a conversation between Andriy Lyubka and Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and guest of honour at the Arsenal Book Festival Lyubka is the author of four collections of poetry, one book of short stories, Saudade, and six novels. His novel Carbide depicts the daily life of smugglers in Zakarpattia Oblast. He also translates prose and poetry from Polish, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, and English. Additionally, he is a columnist for Ukrainian and European journals, Newspapers and media outlets, Nowa Europa Wschodnia / New Eastern Europe, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Den', zbruc.eu, and kontrakty.ua,
Poetry
Poetry
• Eight Months of Schizophrenia (Вісім місяців шизофренії). Uzhhorod 2007. • Terrorism (ТЕРОРИЗМ). Uzhhorod 2008. • Forty Bucks Plus Tip (Сорок баксів плюс чайові). Chernivtsi 2012. • Notaufnahme. German transl. of poems by Team.BAES-low-lectured. BAES, Innsbruck 2012. • (together with DJ Dimka Special-K) Before the explosion we will kiss (Перед вибухом поцілуємося). 2012.
Prose
Prose
• Killer (КІЛЕР. Збірка історій). Lviv, Piramida, 2012. 2nd augm. edition Killer+. Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2018. • Killer. Transl. by Bohdan Zadura. Biuro literackie, Wroclaw 2013. • Sleeping with women (Спати з жінками). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2014. • Karbid. Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2015. • Karbid. Polish Transl. by Bohdan Zadura. Warsztaty Kułtury, Lublin 2016. • Carbide. English Transl. by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. London 2020. • Karbidas. Lithuanian Transl. by Donata Rinkevičienė. Sofoklis. Vilnius 2021 • A Room for Sorrow (Кімната для печалі). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2016. • Pokój do smutku. Polish Transl. by Bohdan Zadura. Lublin 2018. • Saudade (Саудаде). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2017. • Your glance, Cio-Cio-San (Твій погляд, Чіо-Чіо-сан)? Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2018. Lyubka's prose and poetry has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Turkish.
Book translations
Book translations
• Translations from Polish • Bohdan Zadura, Night life (Ukrainian title: Нічне життя). Piramida, Lviv (2012) • Bohdan Zadura, Worst behind (Ukrainian title: Найгірше позаду). Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2015) • Lidia Ostałowska, Farby wodne (Ukrainian title: Акварелі). Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2014) • Translation from Serbian • Srđan Valjarevič, Комо. Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2016) • Svetislav Basara, The Cyclist Conspiracy (Ukrainian title: Фама про велесопедистів). Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2017) • Translation from Bosnian • Muahrem Bazdulj, Konzert. Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi (2018)
Articles in English
Articles in English
• In Search of Barbarians, in: Issue 6/2016 of New Eastern Europe, pp. 21–28, also online • Has the war really changed Ukrainians?, in: Issue 5/2017 of New Eastern Europe, pp. 63–69. • A barbarian in the besieged city, in: Issue 5/2018 of New Eastern Europe, pp. 63–69, also online
Interviews
Interviews
• Russia is the problem (in German) • I am atheist - for me death is the end (in Ukrainian) • Vogue Interview from 03. Dezember 2016, also online • Literature supports us in a way, in: Apofenie 16. September 2018, online
Curator
Curator
• Curator of Kyiv Laurels, an international poetry festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) • Curator of Meridian Czernowitz, an international poetry festival (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1987
Andrij Stepanovyč Ljubka born at Riga.
Writer in residence
Lyubka has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Sweden and Austria. In 2017 he received the CEI Fellowship for writers in Fellowship and stayed in Slovenia.
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- “Andriy Lyubka”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• Yuri Shevelov Award of PEN Ukraine for Saudade (2017) • Kovaliv Foundation literary prize (2017) • Kyiv Laurels (2011) • Debut (2007)
Secondary literature
• P. M. Khodanych, Art. Lyubka, Andriy, in: Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine vol. 18 (2017) p. 306, also online • Reilly Costigan-Humes, Ukrainian Literature's Boy Wonder Goes West, in: The Odessa Review January Issue 2018, also online
References ==== External links
References ==== External links
* • Biography of Andriy Lyubka at PEN International (Ukrainian branch) website • Biography • Literary Event: "Smuggling Ukraine Westward: A conversation with Ukrainian writer Andriy Lyubka", at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, November 7, 2017, uploaded by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter • Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series: “Smuggling Ukraine Westward”, Woodrow Wilson Center, upl. 13.10.2017 • Andriy Lyubka: Rediscovering Ukraine - Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Canadian Institute of Slavic Studies, upl. 22.08.2018
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- 1.The war overwhelmed everything: how Andriy Lyubka threw literature and sat on the "needle of volunteering", Life (24 December 2022)
- 2.In search of barbarians - New Eastern Europe. Neweasterneurope.eu. 12 January 2017.
- 3.A barbarian in the besieged city - New Eastern Europe. Neweasterneurope.eu. 1 September 2018.
- 4.Ljubka: "Russland ist das Problem" - DW - 28.03.2014. Dw.com.
- 5.Шудря, Альбій. Любка: я - атеїст, для мене смерть - це кінець. Bbc.com. 30 November 2016.
- 6.Интервью с Андреем Любкой - Vogue Ukraine. Vogue.ua.
- 7."Literature supports us, in a way": An Interview with Andriy Lyubka. Apofenie.com.
- 8.Andriy Lyubka from Ukraine: recipient of CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence 2017. CEI - Central European Initiative.
- 9.Любка Андрій Степанович - Енциклопедія Сучасної України. Esu.com.ua.
- 10.Costigan-Humes, Reilly. Ukrainian Literature's Boy Wonder Goes West - Odessa Review. Odessareview.com. 17 January 2018.
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