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Yuriy Tarnawsky

Ukrainian-American poet

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born
1934
died
2025
age at death
91
known for
poet, writer, playwright

1934 – 2025

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Yuriy Orest Ivanovych Tarnawsky was a Ukrainian-American writer and linguist, one of the founding members of the New York Group of Poets, a group of avant-garde Ukrainian diaspora writers, co-founder and co-editor of the journal New Poetry, as well as a member of the US innovative writers' collaborative Fiction Collective. He wrote fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism in both Ukrainian and English.

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