Andriy Lyubka (Ukrainian: Андрій Любка, born 3 December 1987 in Riga, Latvia) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He grew up in Vynohradiv, in South-Western Ukraine, and then enrolled at the Uzhhorod National University, where he studied Ukrainian Philology. His second master's degree in Balkan Studies was received from Warsaw University in 2014. Lyubka currently lives in Uzhhorod.
Literary work
‘We Are Not on an Island’: a conversation between Andriy Lyubka and Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and guest of honour at the Arsenal Book Festival
Lyubka is the author of four collections of poetry, one book of short stories, Saudade, and six novels. His novel Carbide depicts the daily life of smugglers in Zakarpattia Oblast.
He also translates prose and poetry from Polish, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, and English. Additionally, he is a columnist for Ukrainian and European journals, Newspapers and media outlets, Nowa Europa Wschodnia / New Eastern Europe, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Den'', zbruc.eu, and kontrakty.ua,
Publications
Poetry
Eight Months of Schizophrenia (Вісім місяців шизофренії). Uzhhorod 2007.
Terrorism (ТЕРОРИЗМ). Uzhhorod 2008.
Forty Bucks Plus Tip (Сорок баксів плюс чайові). Chernivtsi 2012.
Notaufnahme. German transl. of poems by Team.BAES-low-lectured. BAES, Innsbruck 2012.
(together with DJ Dimka Special-K) Before the explosion we will kiss (Перед вибухом поцілуємося). 2012.
Prose
Killer (КІЛЕР. Збірка історій). Lviv, Piramida, 2012. 2nd augm. edition Killer+. Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2018.
Killer. Transl. by Bohdan Zadura. Biuro literackie, Wroclaw 2013.
Sleeping with women (Спати з жінками). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2014.
Karbid. Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2015.
Karbid. Polish Transl. by Bohdan Zadura. Warsztaty Kułtury, Lublin 2016.
Carbide. English Transl. by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. London 2020.
Karbidas. Lithuanian Transl. by Donata Rinkevičienė. Sofoklis. Vilnius 2021
A Room for Sorrow (Кімната для печалі). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2016.
Pokój do smutku. Polish Transl. by Bohdan Zadura. Lublin 2018.
Saudade (Саудаде). Chernivtsi, Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2017.
Your glance, Cio-Cio-San (Твій погляд, Чіо-Чіо-сан)? Knyhy-XXI / Meridian Czernowitz 2018.
Lyubka's prose and poetry has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Turkish.
Book translations
Translations from Polish
Bohdan Zadura, Night life (Ukrainian title: Нічне життя). Piramida, Lviv (2012)
In Search of Barbarians, in: Issue 6/2016 of New Eastern Europe, pp.21–28, also online
Has the war really changed Ukrainians?, in: Issue 5/2017 of New Eastern Europe, pp.63–69.
A barbarian in the besieged city, in: Issue 5/2018 of New Eastern Europe, pp.63–69, also online
Interviews
Russia is the problem (in German)
I am atheist - for me death is the end (in Ukrainian)
Vogue Interview from 03. Dezember 2016, also online
Literature supports us in a way, in: Apofenie 16. September 2018, online
Curator
Curator of Kyiv Laurels, an international poetry festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Curator of Meridian Czernowitz, an international poetry festival (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Writer in residence
Lyubka has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Sweden and Austria. In 2017 he received the CEI Fellowship for writers in Fellowship and stayed in Slovenia.
Awards
Yuri Shevelov Award of PEN Ukraine for Saudade (2017)
