{"id":15670,"date":"2019-01-10T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:19:44","slug":"the-first-ukrainian-author-in-krokodils-residency-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/2019\/01\/the-first-ukrainian-author-in-krokodils-residency-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Ukrainian author in KROKODIL\u2019s Residency for Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

During January KROKODIL’s residency for writers will host contemporary Ukrainian author Andriy Lyubka. He is also 78th guest who stays in KROKODIL’s residence, and is the first author who comes from Ukraine. On Wednesday, January 23, at 7 PM, Ana Pejovi\u0107 from the KROKODIL Association will talk with Andriy about his work and also about contemporary Ukrainian literature. The conversation will be followed by the author’s reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andriy Lyubka (1987) – Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist.<\/p>\n

He graduated from Mukachevo Military School, Ukrainian philology at Uzhgorod University and Balkan studies at the University of Warsaw.<\/p>\n

The author of the books of poetry: “Eight Months of Schizophrenia” (Uzhgorod, 2007),\u00a0\u00a0 “The Terrorism” (Lviv, 2009),\u00a0 \u00ab40 Dollars Plus the Tips\u00bb (Lviv, 2012);\u00a0 collection of short stories: “The Killer” (Lviv, 2012), collection of poems in German translation \u00abNotaufname\u00bb (Austria, Innsbruck, 2012), book of essays \u201cSleeping with Women\u201d (2014), novel \u201cKarbid\u201d (2015, short-listed to top-5 books of the year by BBC Ukraine; Polish translation was short-listed to the Central-European award Angelus in 2017), collection of short stories \u201cThe Room for Sadness\u201d (2016), book of essays \u00abSaudade\u00bb (2017) and novel \u201cYour Gaze, Cio-Cio-san\u201d (2018).<\/p>\n

The winner of the prizes \u201cDebut\u201d (2007), \u201cKyiv Laurels\u201d (2011), recently he received literary award of Kovalev Foundation (USA) and became a laureate of Shevelov Prize for the best book of essays of 2017 in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

He is also the translator from Polish, Croatian, Serbian, English and the curator of two international poetry festivals.<\/p>\n

Lives in Uzhgorod.<\/p>\n

The arrival of Andrija Ljupka is realized within the framework of the READING BALKANS project co-financed by the Creative Europe Program and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic<\/p>\n

Andriy Lyubka\u2019s stay in Belgrade is organized as part of KROKODIL\u2019s ongoing project READING THE BALKANS which is co-financed by the Creative Europe Program and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.<\/p>\n

Reading the Balkans is a project aimed at promoting literature from the Western Balkans through education and establishment of a literary agent who will represent regional writers on the international scene.<\/p>\n

KROKODIL\u2019s Writer-in-Residence<\/em><\/p>\n

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Through development of stable relations with partners in the country, region and abroad, with regard to similar and very popular programs of European metropolis, the Association KROKODIL has established the first continuous residence program for writers in Serbia \u2013 KROKODIL\u2019s Writer-in-Residence. From 2012, writers from many regional and European countries have been coming on a monthly basis to live, work and create in Belgrade.<\/em><\/p>\n

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During January KROKODIL’s residency for writers will host contemporary Ukrainian author Andriy Lyubka. He is also 78th guest who stays in KROKODIL’s residence, and is the first author who comes from Ukraine. On Wednesday, January 23, at 7 PM, Ana Pejovi\u0107 from the KROKODIL Association…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15674,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions\/15674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}