Volodymyr Rafeienko

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] In 2022, he moved to Ternopil escaping active fighting in Kyiv region.

[6] He graduated from Donetsk University with a degree in Russian philology and cultural studies.

He was born in the east of Ukraine, in Donetsk, then, primarily a Russian-speaking city.

[1] After Full-scale invasion started, he decided that none of his future books would be published in Russian.