Yuriy Izdryk

Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk (born 16 August 1962) is a Ukrainian writer, poet, actor, and the creator of the conceptual magazine project Chetver (Thursday). He is the author of the novels Wozzeck & Woczkurgia, Double Leon (2000) and AM™ (2004), as well as the poetry collection Stanislav and his 11 Liberators (1996), several essay and short story collections, plus cultural and literary criticism articles. A co-founder of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of postmodernist post-Soviet writers, Izdryk is also a visual artist, music composer, and theater practitioner. He lives and works in his birthplace, Kalush, Ukraine.