The text was written for the European Literature Days 2011.
Europe: a Culture on the World’s Edge, or Who’s for the Role of the Loser?
Writer: Juri Andruchowytsch
The text was written for the European Literature Days 2011.
What does the gap between the countries formerly divided by the Iron Curtain mean for Europe? Is the old Western Europe in the process of colonizing the cultures formerly dominated by the Soviet system? Are these, as ever, the losers?
Juri Andruchowytsch was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He is considered the leading contemporary Ukrainian writer. He writes poems, prose, essays and translates from German and Polish. In 1985 he co-founded the legendary literary performance group "Bu-Ba-Bu" (Burlesk-Balagan-Buffonada). His books are translated into many languages. He was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and the Goethe Medal.
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