Yuriy Tarnawsky

Yuriy Tarnawsky

Yuriy Tarnawsky is one of the founding members of the New York Group, a Ukrainian émigré avant-garde group of writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal "Novi Poeziyi" ("New Poetry"; 1959–1972). He writes fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism in both Ukrainian and English. His works have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian. [ [http://www.fc2.org/tarnawsky/tarnawsky.htm Yuriy Tarnawsky's author page at FC2] ]

Biography

Tarnawsky was born in 1934 in Turka in Western Ukraine. In 1952 he emigrated to the U.S., where he attended Newark College of Engineering. Upon graduating, he took a job with IBM, where he worked first as an electronic engineer and then a computer scientist. He lived in Spain between 1964-65. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from New York University in 1982. He retired from IBM in 1992. From 1993-96, he was professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture in the Department of Slavic Languages as well as co-coordinator of Ukrainian Studies at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York.

elected bibliography

  • "Life in the City" (1956, poetry, Ukrainian)
  • "Popoludni v Pokipsi" ("Afternoons in Poughkeepsie") (1960, poetry, Ukrainian, New York Group Publishing)
  • "Shljaxy" ("Roads") (1961, novel, Ukrainian, Suchasnist Publishers)
  • "Idealizovana biohrafija" ("An Idealized Biography") (1964, poetry, Ukrainian, Suchasnist Publishers, Munich)
  • "Spomyny" ("Memories") (1964, poetry, Ukrainian, Suchasnist Publishers
  • "Bez Espaniji" ("Without Spain") (1969, poetry, Ukrainian, Suchasnist Publishers)
  • "Questionnaires" (1970, poetry, Ukrainian)
  • "Poeziji pro nishcho i inshi poeziji na cju samu temu" ("Poems About Nothing and Other Poems on the Same Subject") (1970, poetry, Ukrainian, New York Group Publishing)
  • "This Is How I Get Well" ("Oto jak zdrowjeje") (1978, poetry, English and later Ukrainian, Suchasnist Publishers)
  • [http://www.fc2.org/tarnawsky/meningitis/meningitis.htm "Meningitis"] (1978, novel, English, Fiction Collective)
  • "Bez nichoho" ("Without Anything") (1991, poetry, Ukrainian, Dnipro Publishers)
  • "U ra na" (1992, book-length poem, Ukrainian, Berezil Publishers & M. P. Kots Publishers)
  • [http://www.fc2.org/tarnawsky/three/three.htm "Three Blondes and Death"] (1993, novel, English, FC2)
  • "6x0" (1998, collected plays, Ukrainian, Rodovid)
  • "An Ideal Woman" (1999, poetry, Ukrainian)
  • "The City of Sticks and Pits" (1999, book-length poem, Ukrainian)
  • "Jix nemaje" ("They Don't Exist") (1999, collected poetry 1970–1999, Ukrainian, Rodovid)
  • "Ne znaju" ("I Don't Know") (2000, selected fiction, Ukrainian, Rodovid)
  • [http://www.fc2.org/tarnawsky/bloodwater/bloodwater.htm "Like Blood in Water"] (2007, collection of mininovels, English, FC2)

External links

  • [http://bourgeoizine.pabn.org/09-tarnawsky-bobby.html Tarnawsky's story "bobby and bobbi"]
  • [https://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-tarnawsky.html Tarkawsky's poem "I Forgot Her Blue Ice"] in [Agni]

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