Volodymyr Rafeienko
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Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Rafeyenko (born November 25, 1969) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet,[1] translator, literary and film critic,[2] a member of PEN Ukraine.[1] From 1992 to 2018, was writing in Russian, published his works mostly in Russia and was regarded as a representative of Russian literature. In 2014, having moved to the Kyiv region, learned Ukrainian, started writing his new novel in Ukrainian, and become a full-fledged representative of Ukrainian literature as well.[1] In 2022, he moved to Ternopil escaping active fighting in Kyiv region.[3] Rafeyenko is a representative of magic realism.[4][5]
