Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations in Ukrainian and English, including the novels Meningitis, and Three Blondes and Death, the collections of short fictions Short Tails and Crocodile Smiles, The Placebo Effect Trilogy collection of interrelated mininovels Like Blood in Water, The Future of Giraffes, and View of Delft, the novels Warm Arctic Nights and The Iguanas of Heat, the play Not Medea, a volume of Heuristic poetry Modus Tollens, and the book of essays Claim to Oblivion. He was born in Ukraine, but was raised and educated in the West. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as a computer scientist, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, at IBM Corporation and as a professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University. For his contribution to Ukrainian literature, in 2008, he was awarded the Prince Yaroslav the Wise Order of Merit by Ukrainian government. He resides with his wife Karina in the New York City metropolitan area.
Literary Diary contains a detailed account of the writing of Yuriy Tarnawsky’s The First-Person Dilogy—Sebastian in a Dream and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz,—the trials and tribulations the aut...
Written in an internal monologue style, driven by incessant denial of what has been said he developed in his 2011 story ”Father,” Yuriy Tarnawsky’s The First-Person Dilogy mixes autobiographical...
Written in an internal monologue style, driven by incessant denial of what has been said he developed in his 2011 story ”Father,” Yuriy Tarnawsky’s The First-Person Dilogy mixes autobiographical...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Crocodile Smiles: Short Shrift Fictions
Are crocodiles capable of smiling if they can't cry? You'll find the answer within the pages of Yuriy Tarnawsky's l...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Iguanas of Heat
The Iguanas of Heat is a Novel about a woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband who plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. ...
Synopsis of the Novel, Warm Arctic Nights
In Yuriy Tarnawsky's Warm Arctic Nights, a young boy's idyllic pre-WWII Polish childhood and nightmarish WWII Ukrainian adolescence are brought to vibrant ...
Synopsis of the Art and Literary Work, Literary Yoga
Struggling with your iambs and pentameters? Characters and plots? Have you hit the concrete wall of a writer's block? Or are you having the time...
Synopsis of the Novel, View of Delft: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #3)
View of Delft is the third book in The Placebo Effect Trilogy and continues to explore the themes of alienation...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Future of Giraffes: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #2)
The Future of Giraffes is the second installment to Yuriy Tarnawsky's Placebo Effects Trilogy, devoted...
Synopsis of the Novel, Like Blood in Water: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #1)
Like Blood in Water: Five Mininovels is the first book of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, a collection of fiv...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Short Tails
A body gradually shrinks to an eye that sees its own end. A man screams with pain as if singing an Indian raga to entertain others for a pittan...
Synopsis of the Art and Literary Work, Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews
Are you still wondering who is that boy at the beginning of Bergman's Persona and what the damn movie is all...
