Volodymyr Rafeienko

Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Rafeyenko (born November 25, 1969) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, translator, literary and film critic, a member of PEN Ukraine. Rafeyenko is a representative of magic realism.

Biography Education Rafeienko was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. He graduated from Donetsk University with a degree in Russian philology and cultural studies. Petrichor: The Scent of the Earth after Rain (ukr. "Петрикор – запах землі після дощу", 2023).

Plays Mobile Waves of Life (ukr. «Мобільні хвилі буття», 2023)

Collections of poems Three Days in the Middle of the Week (rus. "Три дня среди недели", 1998) Private Sector (rus. "Частный сектор", 2002) Help across the Street (rus. "Переводы через дорогу", 2003).

Awards Moscow Divertissement became a second-place winner in a category "Big Prose" of the Russian Literary Prizes "Russian Prize" (2010) NOS (Nose) Award, short list for the novel Decartes' Demon (2014) Volodymyr Korolenko Award, National Union of Ukrainian Writers, for the novel Brief Farewell Book (2016) He learned Ukrainian when he moved to Kyiv in 2014. After Full-scale invasion started, he decided that none of his future books would be published in Russian. He reports that returning to his native Russian language is altogether impossible.