Taras Prokhasko ukr. Тарас Богданович Прохасько (born May 16, 1968 in Ivano-Frankivsk) - Ukrainian novelist, essayist and journalist. Together with Yuri Andrukhovych a major representative of the Stanislav phenomenon. Writing of Taras Prokhasko is often associated with

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Biography

Taras Prokhasko studied botany at

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

. In 1989-1991 took part in student protests for the independence of Ukraine. After graduation he took different jobs at the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Karpathian Forestry, scholl teacher, bartender, animator on "Vezha" radio, art galleries, newspapers, on TV. In 1992-1994 he edited the avant-guarde literary journal "Chetver". In 1993 and 1994 he acted in short films "Flowers of St. Francis" and "Escape to Egypt" (winner of the Delyatyn video art festival). Worked as a journalist at "Express", "Postup", "Telekrytyka" and "Halytskyi korespondent" newspapers. In 2004 Prokhasko spent several months in Krakow on the «Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza — Homines Urbani» foundation scholarship.

Awards

* 1997 - Smoloskyp prize * 2006 - first prize for fiction from "Korespondent" journal * 2007 - third prize for documentary writing from "Korespondent" journal * 2007 - Joseph Conrad prize from the Polish Institute in Kyiv * 2013 - BBC Book of the Year, Litakcent roku for "Who will make the snow"

Bibliography

* Other Days of Anna (Інші дні Анни) * FM Halychyna (FM Галичина) * The UnSimple (НепрОсті) * Lexicon of Mysterious Knowledge (Лексикон таємних знань) * One Could Make Several Stories from This (З цього можна зробити кілька оповідань) * Port Frankivsk (Порт Франківськ) * «Ukraina» together with Serhiy Zhadan * «Galizien-Bukowina-Express» with Jurko Prokhasko and Magdalena Blashchuk * Cause it's This Way (БотакЄ) / * Who Will Make the Snow (Хто зробить сніг) with Maryana Prokhasko * One and the Same (Одної і тої самої) * Taras Prokhasko conducted a series of long interviews with contemporary Ukrainian writers and intellectuals ( Oleh Lysheha, Yuriy Izdryk, Yuri Andrukhovych,

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Translations

Prokhasko's writings were translated in English, German, Polish, Belarusian and Russian.

Texts available in English

* «Necropolis» in «Two Lands, New Visions» (1998) anthology * «The UnSimple», 2011
FM Galicia

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Biography of T. Prokhasko

Тарас Прохасько: ліричний ботан. Рецензія
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prokhasko, Taras 1968 births Living people Writers from Ivano-Frankivsk People of the Revolution on Granite Postmodern writers University of Lviv alumni Ukrainian essayists Male essayists Ukrainian male writers Counterculture of the 1990s