Yuriy Tarnawsky - The Yellow Street Car With No Name

Yuriy Tarnawsky reads "The Yellow Street Car With No Name" from "Short Tails" at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, Illinois, 9/17/11.

Tarnawsky is a bilingual American/Ukrainian writer, born in Ukraine and raised in the West. He is a member of the avant-garde group of Ukrainian émigré authors The New York Group, the American experimental prose group Fiction Collective, and the Association of the Writers of Ukraine. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as a computer scientist and professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University in New York City. For his contributions to literature, Tarnawsky was awarded the Prince Yaroslav the Wise Order of Merit by the Ukrainian government in 2008. He resides in White Plains, NY.

Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored nineteen collections of poetry, seven plays, nine books of fiction, a biography, a number of articles dealing with literature and theater, and numerous translations from and into Ukrainian. His FC2 publications are Meningitis (1978) and Three Blondes and Death (1993).

His latest publication is "Short Tails," an English language collection of thematically connected short stories published by JEF Books/Civil Coping Mechanisms.

His works have been translated into French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian.

more information could be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Tarnawsky

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