At the age of 91, the renowned Ukrainian and American writer and translator Yuri Tarnavsky has passed away. He was one of the founders of the New York Group of Ukrainian avant-garde writers. The news of his death was shared by Mariana Savka.
"This morning we learned that Yuri Tarnavsky left us on October 14. We were eagerly awaiting his return to the Land of Poets, his address to us from the screen. But the Poet's life journey reached its final chapter sooner than expected. Poets never die; they simply depart," Savka wrote.
She added that at the end of October, a "significant volume" of selected poetry by Yuri Tarnavsky will be published by "Old Lion Publishing".
"It is a great sadness that he will not see it, but he was aware; he worked on it, approved everything, and was waiting," the writer noted.

Yuri Tarnavsky was born on February 3, 1934, in the Ukrainian city of Turka, yet he studied in the USA. His education included engineering and linguistics.
He worked at IBM as a cybernetician specializing in natural language processing, and later became a professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University.
Tarnavsky is a co-founder of the New York Group of Ukrainian avant-garde writers and the American innovative writers' association Fiction Collective/FC2.
In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Yaroslav the Wise for his contributions to Ukrainian literature.
Yuri Tarnavsky authored more than twenty books of poetry, prose, plays, and essays in both Ukrainian and English.
Among his Ukrainian works are two volumes of collected poetry titled "Poems about Nothing and Other Poems on the Same Theme" and "They Are Not Here". His English titles include "Meninigit", "Three Blondes and Death", "Like Blood in Water", and "Short Tails".
After retiring in 1996, he lived and worked in White Plains, New York.