:: YURIY TARNAWSKY ::

Yuriy Tarnawsky

:: HIS BOOKS ::
Three Blondes & Death

Meningitis

Like Blood in Water

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Yuriy Tarnawsky is a bilingual American/Ukrainian writer, born in Ukraine but raised in the West. He is a member of the avant-garde group of Ukrainian émigré authors The New York Group, Fiction Collective, and the Association of the Writers of Ukraine. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as a computer scientist and professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University in New York City. He resides in White Plains, NY.

Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored nineteen collections of poetry, seven plays, nine books of fiction, a biography, a number of articles dealing with literature and theater, and numerous translations from and into Ukrainian. His FC2 publications are Meningitis (1978) and Three Blondes and Death (1993).

His latest publication is a three-volume set of his selected writings in Ukrainian -- 6x0, a book of plays (1998), They Donšt Exist, a collection of poetry (1999), and I Donšt Know, selected prose (2000).

His works have been translated into French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian.