This page is dedicated to experimental novelist, poet, and dramatist Yuriy Tarnawsky.

Yuriy Tarnawsky now has his own website. You'll find there biographical information, photos, excerpts from his many works, and more.

interview

• On the current literary and cultural situation in Ukraine
  (a discussion between Volodymyr Tsybulko and Yuriy Tarnawsky)

• The Fiction Collective 2 website has pages for Yuriy's two FC2 novels, Three Blondes and Death (1993) and Meningitis (1978), plus an author bio.
• Yuriy's short story bobby and bobbi appeared in formerly known as l'bourgeoizine #9 (spring 2005).

• Mick O'Grady has a post at his blog about Menengitis, focused around the character of Jim Morrison. The post includes an email from Yuriy.

• Lavrinenko, Y. Stumps and Sprouts, ?
• Phelps, Stephen. "Meningitis," Minnesota Daily, July 3, 1978.
• Rubchak, R. Co-ordinates, ?
• Don Webb mentioned and parodied Meningitis in a section of his Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book (FC2 1988).

• Borowsky, Bruce. "The Thinnest, Whites Blonde of All," Agni, No. ?, 1994.
• Boyd, Greg. "Love, Death, Epiphanies and Soap Scum: Hwbrgdtse Dreams He Writes a Novel," Collages & Bricolades, 1994.
• Brilliant, Alan. ?
• Byrne, Jack. "Three Blondes and Death," Review of Contemporay Fiction, Fall, 1993.
• Kirkus Reviews, ?
• Pekar, Harvey. "'Three Blondes' confronts fears," Columbus Dispatch, August 22, 1993.
• Polkinhorn, Harry. "Through a Cold and Disorienting Fog," American Book Review Vol.16, No. 3 (August-September 1994).
• Ukrainian Literary Gazette, ?

• "I Forgot Her Blue Ice" in Agni 56 (30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology).
• selected poems from This is how I get well (1978): Portrait, Amnesia, Despair, Foreign Language, Dream, Toy, Shevchenko.

• Anon. "Third volume of Yuriy Tarnawsky's Works Is Released," The Ukrainian Weekly No. 11, Vol. LXIX, March 18, 2001. [announcement of Rodovid's release of Ne Znaju (I Don't Know)]
• Efimov-Schneider, Lisa. "Poetry of the New York Group," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, No. 9, 1981.
• Pytlowany, Melanie. "The New York Group of Poets," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, No. 2, 1977.
• Rewakowicz, Maria G. "Introducing the Ukrainian Émigré Poets of the New York Group," Toronto Slavic Quarterly (No 3, Winter 2003). [includes the poem "To Hamlet," translated by Yuriy Tarnawsky (from Kaminnyi sad, 1956)/

• Rodovid Press's page for the book 6X0, which collects Tarnawsky's drama and writing about the theater.
• Hrabovsky, Leonid. "Yuriy Tarnawsky's 'Not Medea,'" The Ukrainian Weekly, No. 35, August 8, 1998.

• Chernychko, Ihor. "Escape From Banality," The Day #5 (9 February 1999)
  An essay about Yuriy on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
• Tarnawsky, Marta. "Ukranian Literature in English, 1980-1989," Studia Ucrainica 4 (1988): 15-22.
  This mentions Yuriy's essay "Bilingualism in literature: some personal remarks on bilingual writing" and provides some biographical information.
• Yuriy is mentioned in Exquisite Corpse Cyber Issue 11 (Spring/Summer 2002).