Yuriy Vynnychuk

• Name — Yuriy Vynnychuk • Native Name — Юрій Винничук • Born — 18 March 1952 • Birthplace — Stanislaviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) • Occupation — * Journalist • writer • editor • Language — Ukrainian • Education — Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University

• Illustration — Vynnychuk at the 2017 Publishers' Forum in Lviv Educated in the Vasyl Stefanyk Subcarpathian National University (formerly Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute), Faculty of Philology (1969–1973 years), a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 1974, he moved to the city and worked as a loader, graphic designers. 1987–1991 — director of Lviv Theatre of Variety, "Do not worry!". He was the author of the script for the play "Do not worry!" and song lyrics. In 1990, he had to leave the theater and together with Stefka Orobets created "Cabarete Yurtsya and Steftsya". 1991–1994 — editor of mysticism and sensational newspaper "Post-Postup". 1995–1998 — chief editor of "Gulvіsa", Lviv. 1998–1999 — editor of the newspaper "Postup". Since 2006 — chief editor of "Post-Postup" (restored). Member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers (1997).

On 23 January 2012, two police officers came to Vynnychuk's house and asked him to explain in writing about a poem he had recited a few months ago at the "A Night of Erotic Poetry" festival held in Kyiv. A complaint had been lodged with the Prosecutor General by Leonid Hrach, a communist People's Deputy of Ukraine who accused the writer of reciting a pornographic poem and inciting revolt against the Ukrainian government.

• The Fantastic Worlds of Yuri Vynnychuk (collected short stories). Translated in English by Michael M. Naydan. (Glagoslav Publications, 2016) • Tango of Death (novel). Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko. Translation edited by Ludmilla A. Trigos. (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019)