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V2-2010.PM51506/13/100, 12:14 PMTaras Prohasko se je rodil leta 1968 v obkarpatskem mestu Ivano-Frankivskv Ukrajini. Pisatelj, esejist, publicist in novinar, imenovan tudi ukrajinskiMarquez, se je po diplomi iz botanike na Lvovski državni univerzi IvanaFranka leta 1992 vrnil v rodno mesto, kjer živi in dela kot novinar tednikaÃàëèöüêèé Êîðåñïîíäåíò (Galicijski poročevalec). Najprej je bil zaposlenna Inštitutu karpatskega gozdarstva, kasneje pa je učiteljeval, delal kotbarman, čuvaj, radijski napovedovalec in sourednik literarne revije ×åòâåð(Četrtek). Je član Združenja ukrajinskih pisateljev (AUP). Od leta 1997 jenapisal osem romanov, med katerimi so najpomembnejši ²íø³ äí³ Àííè(Ostali Anini dnevi, 1998), FÌ Ãàëè÷èíà (FM Galicija, 2001), ÍåïðÎñò³ (NepreprOsti,2002), Ëåêñèêîí òàºìíèõ çíàíü (Leksikon skritega vedenja,2005), Ç öüîãî ìîæíà áóëî á çðîáèòè ê³ëüêà îïîâ³äàíü (Iz tega bi lahko naredilnekaj zgodb, 2005) ter Ïîðò Ôðàíê³âñüê (Port Frankivsk, 2006), po katerihje postal znan kot novi glas ukrajinske književnosti. Je dobitnik nagradesklada Josepha Conrada (2007) za dosežke na področju književnosti ternagrade za ukrajinsko knjigo leta 2006 in 2007, ki jo podeluje revijaÊîðåñïîíäåíò (Korespondent). Njegova proza je prevedena v angleščino,nemščino, ruščino, poljščino, češčino in srbščino.Taras Prokhasko was born in 1968 in the Precarpathian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The author, essayist, publicist and journalist, alsoreferred to as the “Ukrainian Marquez”, returned to his place of birth in1992 after graduating in Botany from the Ivan Franko National Universityin Lviv. Initially he worked at the Institute of Mountain Forestry but waslater on employed as a teacher, a barman, a watchman, a radio anchor,and as the co-editor of the literary magazine ×åòâåð (Thursday). He currentlyworks as a journalist at the Ãàëèöüêèé Êîðåñïîíäåíò (Galician Correspondent)weekly. He has been a member of the Association of UkrainianWriters (AUP) since 1997 and has written eight novels, of which ²íø³äí³ Àííè (Anna’s other Days, 1998), FÌ Ãàëè÷èíà (FM Galicia, 2001),ÍåïðÎñò³ (The UnSimple, 2002), Ëåêñèêîí òàºìíèõ çíàíü (The Lexicon ofHidden Behaviour, 2005), Ç öüîãî ìîæíà áóëî á çðîáèòè ê³ëüêà îïîâ³äàíü (ICould Get Some Stories out of This, 2005), and Ïîðò Ôðàíê³âñüê (PortFrankivsk, 2006) have earned him the reputation of the “new voice ofUkrainian literature”. He is the recipient of the national Joseph ConradPrize (2007) for literary achievement, and has won the Ukrainian Book ofthe Year Award presented by the magazine Êîðåñïîíäåíò (Correspondent)in 2006 and 2007. His works have been translated into English, German,Russian, Polish, Czech, and Serbian.150