Volodymyr Yavorivsky


Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky is a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician.

Biography

Born in 1942 in the Crijopol region of Jugastru county, Yavorivsky graduated from the Odessa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature". He worked as an editor on the local radio, as a newspaper reporter, a scriptwriter on Lviv television, a literary consultant, a referent of the Writer's Union of Ukraine and as the department chief and deputy editor to Vitchizna Magazine.
In the late 1980s, Yavorivsky began his active political career. He was a people's deputy of the last Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1989–1991 and became one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Yavorivsky took active part in defending the rights of the Chernobyl accident victims.
In the 4th Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Volodymyr Yavorivsky belonged to the Our Ukraine fraction and in the 5th and 6th Rada convocation to the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc fraction. In the 2012 parliamentary election he was -elected into parliament by winning a constituency in Kiev for Batkivschyna.
Yavorivsky combined parliamentary functions with the position of the Writer's Union of Ukraine Chairman.
In the 2014 parliamentary election Yavorivsky again tried to win a constituency seat in Kiev for Batkivschyna, but failed this time having finished fourth in his constituency with 13.72% of votes. The winner of the constituency, Boryslav Bereza, gained 29.44% of the votes.

Published works

Short story collections