Juri Andruchowytsch

Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He is considered the leading contemporary Ukrainian writer. He writes poems, prose, essays and translates from German and Polish.

Awards (selection)

Heine-Preis 2022
Goethe-Medaille 2016
Hannah-Arendt-Preis 2014
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2006
Sonderpreis des Erich-Maria- Remarque-Friedenspreises 2005

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2023

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2023

The Price of Our Freedom

»They belong to us, they are one of us and we want them in« – Yuri Andrukhovych had been waiting for this sentence, which presented the prospect of EU membership to his country, for many years. It was uttered in Brussels, three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. »A deep exhale – amidst the blaring sirens.«

Twenty years ago, his brilliant volume of essays My Final...

Year of Publication: 2021

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2021

Radio Night

»I have always dreamt of writing a novel that has a sound,« says Yuri Andrukhovych, who has spent his life singing, rehearsing with his band and playing countless concerts. His...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (NYRB), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora Zain), France (Noir sur Blanc), Poland (Czytelnik), Slovak Republic (N Press), Hungary (Helikon), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Trei), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga)

Year of Publication: 2017

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2017

Justice’s Darlings

Justice’s Darlings, these are crimes and criminals, real and alleged: Bohdan Stashynsky, for example, a KGB officer and assassin who kills the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera in his...

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Poland (Warstwy), Bulgaria (Paradox)

Year of Publication: 2011

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2011

Small Encyclopedia of Intimate Cities

Yuri Andrukhovych has invested a lot of time in familiarising himself with foreign cities. In some of them, he got stuck for a while. Others have become true parts of his life:...

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Croatia (Fraktura)

Year of Publication: 2007

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2007

The Secret

Rarely do the private and the political intertwine so closely as in this ironic portrait of an author who doesn't trust himself an inch.

Where did you feel happy? Why did the football match make you cry? Whose books would you like to learn by heart? Questions a German journalist poses to a Ukrainian author spending a year in Berlin. Over seven whole days, Egon Alt and...

Year of Publication: 2006

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2006

Angels and Demons of the Periphery

»A little bit Sisyphus, a little bit Sacher-Masoch« is how Ukraine’s best-known writer described himself in 2007. The »orange revolution« is a thing of the past, any hopes and dreams are pretty much dead and buried, »let’s start again from the beginning«: with reading Hesse, Benn and Lina Kostenko, early and formative experiences, with the...

Year of Publication: 2003

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2003

Twelve Circles

In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through the Ukraine. The birth pangs of this new state, the incongruous mixture of brutally...

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Del Vecchio), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Slovenia (Cankarjeva)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Spuyten Duyvil), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (RAO), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Filip Visnjic)

The History of Culture at the Beginning of the Century

Year of Publication: 2003

Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2003

The History of Culture at the Beginning of the Century

Only in an environment in which anachronistic industrial plants sit in the landscape like dinosaurs, rotting away as the last witnesses of the grandiose Soviet experiment, could the...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (selection; Yale UP), Russia (Agorisk), Finland (selection; Sammakko), Hungary (selection; Jelenkor)

Year of Publication: 2000

Juri Andruchowytsch , Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2000

My Europe

In these »two essays on the strangest part of the world«, Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk offer a stereoscopic portrait of central Europe. On foot and by car, they travelled...

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (print edition Mimesis / digital edition GoWare), Hungary (Kijarat), Bulgaria (Lektura), Romania (Polirom)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Periplum), Croatia (Fraktura)

Year of Publication: 2000

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2000

The Moscoviad

The Moscoviad, Andrukhovych’s most successful book, translated into many languages, was written in Spring 1992 on the banks of Lake Starnberg outside Munich – and is surprisingly...

Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Besa), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Czarne), Lithuania (Hieronymus), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Cankarjeva), Greece (World Books), Israel (Nine Lives Press), Ethiopia/Amharic (Hohe Publisher)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA (Spuyten Duyvil), Russia (New Literary Review), Czech Republic (FRA), Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Allfa), Macedonia (Makedonska Rech), Belarus (ARCHE), Georgia (Sulakauri)

Year of Publication: 1999

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 1999

My Final Territory

»Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as public intellectual he has received numerous...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (University of Toronto Press), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Hungary (Racio), Serbia (Kulturni Centar Novi Sad)

Year of Publication: 1996

Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 1996

Perverzion

The godchild of Rabelais and Bakhtin, Bulgakov and Esterházy, it is a whirligig of forms, styles, and apocryphal traditions – an adventure for readers who view life not as...

Rights sold to:

USA (Northwestern UP), Spain (Acantilado), Russia (NLO), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Del Vecchio), Finland (Loki Kirjat), Poland (Czarne), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Clio)

DISCOVER

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Yuri Andrukhovych awarded Heine-Preis 2022

The Heine-Preis, established in 1972, is one of the most important distinctions awarded to authors and personalities in Germany.

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On the Current Situation in Belarus

The situation in Belarus, »Europe’s last dictatorial regime«, is escalating rapidly.

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