Ярослав Мельник
Born 1959 · Lithuania, Ukraine
BBC Ukrainian Book 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Masha, or Postfascism”
Yaroslav Melnyk · 54 when first published
Novel · 248 pages · Speculative, Politics, Love
AI-generated summary:In the fourth millennium, a journalist at the newspaper Voice of the Reich falls in love with a female stor, one of the beings with human bodies who are not counted as human, and starts fighting for their right to be called people.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2014 · Shortlist
Chomu ya ne vtomliuiusia zhyty
Title translated by AI:“Why I Don't Get Tired of Living”
Yaroslav Melnyk · 55 when first published
Short stories · 203 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Stories and novellas with startling premises: a man lives life after life in new young bodies, a scientist destroys the world in order to meet God, and a TV reporter turns into a character in a writer's book.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2013 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Distant Space”
Yaroslav Melnyk · 49 when first published
Novel · Speculative, Politics
AI-generated summary:In a far future where people are blind and trust only what they can hear, Habr begins to see the sky; doctors call it a hallucination, and the woman he loves sends him to the Ministry of Control to be cured.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2012 · Shortlist
Telefonui meni, hovory zi mnoiu
Title translated by AI:“Call Me, Talk to Me”
Yaroslav Melnyk · 53 when first published
Short stories · 223 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Stories, novellas and a short novel in which everyday reality slips: rooms vanish one by one from a gentleman's house, lists of death dates can be bought, and a son talks to his father on the phone for years without managing to visit.