Oleksandr Irvanets
Illustration — Oleksandr Irvanets at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 Oleksandr Vasyliovych Irvanets (born 24 January 1961) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright, and translator.
Also recorded as Олександр Ірванець · Oleksandr Iwanez
Oleksandr Irvanets
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- 1961 · Lviv.
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- Soviet Union · Ukraine
- Occupation
- writer · playwright · poet · translator
- Fields
- prose · poetry · drama · translation
- Education
- Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- Languages
- Ukrainian · Belarusian · Polish
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Illustration — Oleksandr Irvanets at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 Oleksandr Vasyliovych Irvanets (born 24 January 1961) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright, and translator.
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Born in Lviv, Irvanets spent his childhood in Rivne, where he attended school. In 1980 he graduated from Dubno pedagogical institute. In 1985 together with Yurii Andrukhovych and Vasyl Neborak Irvanets formed the literary group Bu-Ba-Bu, whose member he remains to this day. In 1989 he finished studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. Since 1993 Irvanets has resided in Irpin. His works have been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, French, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Belarusian, Russian, Italian and Croatian. Since the early 2000s Irvanets has dedicated himself to drama and prose. He is the author of more than 20 books, as well as numerous publications in American and European journals.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Олександр Ірванець and Oleksandr Iwanez. His recorded languages were Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and Russian.
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Oleksandr Irvanets is recorded as writer, playwright, poet and translator.
Oleksandr Irvanets, Ukrainian writer, at the 5th Odessa International Film Festival.
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Oleksandr Irvanets, Ukrainian writer, at the 5th Odessa International Film Festival.
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Oleksandr Irvanets was born in 1961 at Lviv.
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- The Shifting Object of Desire: The Poetry of Oleksandr Irvanets, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2010
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