Well-known Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, musician and performer, awarded with many literary prizes. Co-founder of the legendary Ukrainian literary group Bu-Ba-Bu. As a poet, he is known to Czech audiences for his collection Songs of the Dead Rooster, and as a novelist, primarily for the Moscoviad, a depiction of the collapse of the Empire. Its subtitle “a scary novel” has become eerily relevant in the recent years. The production of the Moscoviad at Theatre X10, directed by Dušan Pařízek, is now resonating in the Czech cultural space. Czech readers know his essayistic position from the book My Europe, which he wrote together with the Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk. At the festival he will present himself in a somewhat unconventional way, namely as a translator of Bruno Schulz. His new translations of The Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, together with his regular presence at SchulzFest in Drohobych, have introduced Schulz to a wider Ukrainian audience.