Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych (Ukrainian: Юрій Ігорович Андрухович) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
Andrukhovych was born March 13, 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 1985 he co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for бурлеск, балаган, буфонада--'burlesque, side-show, buffoonery' together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak. Yuri Andrukhovych is the father of Sofia Andrukhovych, who has also become a writer.
Vodka fatally depraves
male company.
There must be at least one woman -
...
I could even wash the locomotives
at Keleti station -
just to be nearer Buda with her green
...
They say that no one comes here in January.
Not a soul in the palace or the outbuildings,
padlocks on the doors, garden plants in bags,
...
….until finally I realised:
I'd been sitting there for a good half hour
...