Yuriy Izdryk

Yuriy Izdryk
Native name
Юрій Романович Іздрик
BornYuriy Romanovych Izdryk
(1962-08-16) 16 August 1962 (age 62)
Kalush, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationWriter, poet
LanguageUkrainian
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materLviv Polytechnic National University
Literary movementPostmodernism

Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk (Ukrainian: Юрій Романович Іздрик; born 16 August 1962) is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.

He wrote the novels The Island of Krk (1994), Wozzeck & Woczkurgia (1996, 1997), Double Leon (2000) and AM™ (2004). He also wrote the poetry collection Stanislav and his 11 Liberators (1996), several collections of essays, and a number of short stories, articles on cultural studies and literary criticisms. Izdryk is also one of the founders of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of postmodernist post-Soviet writers.[1] He lives and works in his birthplace, Kalush.

Izdryk is also a visual artist and music composer, and has written stagings for theatrical plays.

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