Poetry
Metrophobia
by Myroslav Laiuk
Description
Metrophobia is the second book of poetry by Miroslav Layuk. It is the space of language and the world it creates. A world that begins with small autobiographical stories (according to the author), marked with a dash-and-dot line of school trees, abandoned buildings, nursing homes, children's mental hospitals and cemeteries, and it grows into a Sonnetarium – the grand and disparate world of Ezra, in which all connoisseurs of this not very common today poetic genre will live luxuriously. The splendid artistic design by Zhanna Kadyrova further reveals this world, gives it a structure and monumental features, but at the same time seems to build a separate parallel, a separate perspective of movement into the depth of consideration, reading, and interpretation. Metrophobia was recognized as the best poetry collection of 2015 by the annual LitAkcent Literary Prize.
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Author Biography
Myroslav Laiuk is a well known Ukranian poet, novelist and screenwriter. Born in 1990 in the Carpathians, he now resides in Kyiv. Myroslav Laiuk graduated from the famous National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and in 2018 received his PhD both in philosophy and literature as well as in philology. Myroslav Laiuk is an author of poetry collections, such as Metrophobia (2015) and The Rose (2019), as well as of the novels Babornia: The Old Folks’ Home (2016), The World Is Not Created (2018) and Iron Water (2021). An author also wrote books for kids "Zavryk and his younger brother" and "Kiwi Kiwi". Myroslav has won several literary awards in Ukraine and abroad. His debut novel was a finalist for the 2016 BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award. In 2019, Myroslav was honored by the Kyiv Post as one of the Top 30 Under 30 most innovative young Ukrainians. The author currently teaches creative writing at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His works have been translated into English, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech languages etc.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher The Old Lion Publishing House
- Publication Date 2015
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786176791324
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages176
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleМетрофобія
- Original Language AuthorsЛаюк Мирослав
