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Andrij Bondar

Andrij Bondar (born 1974 in Kamianets-Podilskyi) is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, translator, and columnist. A graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, he is the author of the poetry collections Spring Heresy (1998), Truth and Honey (2001), Primitive Forms of Property (2004), and Unleavened Songs: A Collection of Low Poetry and Primitive Texts (2014). A selection of his poems, Jogging, was published in Polish in 2005; his work has also been translated into English, German, French, Swedish, Portuguese, Romanian, Croatian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian.
Bondar has published several prose volumes, including Important and Unimportant Stories (2011), Carrot Ice (2013), And to Those in the Graves (2016), and Cerebro (2017; Polish edition 2020). He has translated numerous works into Ukrainian, including prose by Witold Gombrowicz (Ferdydurke and Trans-Atlantyk), Marek Hłasko, Sławomir Mrożek, and Joseph Conrad, as well as reportage by Witold Szabłowski, Mariusz Szczygieł, and Wojciech Tochman.
He is a laureate of the Smoloskyp Publishers Award (1997), the Yuri Shevelov Prize (2018), and the BBC Book of the Year Award (2018). He was also a finalist for the Angelus Central European Literature Award (2011) and a fellow of the Gaude Polonia (2003, 2016) and Homines Urbani (2004) programs.