Oleksandr Irvanets

Ołeksandr Irvanets (born 1961 in Lviv) is a poet, prose writer, playwright, and translator. He grew up in Rivne, Volyn, and from 1990 to 2022 lived in Irpin near Kyiv. Graduate of the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow (1989). Together with Yuriy Andruhovych and Viktor Neborak, he co-founded the legendary literary group Bu-Ba-Bu. In Polish translations, a selection of his dramas “Recording” and other works (2001), novels “Rivne/Rowno” (2008) and “Lovecraft’s Disease” (2013), and poems “Vanya from Ryazan” (2022) were published. Translator from Belarusian, Czech, French, Russian and Polish (works of Janusz Korczak and Janusz Głowacki). Winner of the Helen Szczerban-Lipka Prize (USA), scholarship holder of the Fulbright Foundation (USA), Schloss Solitude Academy (Germany), Kultur-Kontakt Foundation (Austria) and the Gaude Polonia programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Finalist of the Angelus Central European Literary Award (2014).