Taras Prokhasko

Taras Prokhasko
Born (1968-05-16) 16 May 1968
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR
Occupationnovelist, essayist
GenreUkrainian literature
Notable worksThe UnSimple (2002)

Taras Prokhasko (Ukrainian: Тарас Богданович Прохасько; born 16 May 1968) is a Ukrainian novelist, essayist and journalist. Together with Yuri Andrukhovych a major representative of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of postmodernist writers in Ivano-Frankivsk. Writing of Taras Prokhasko is often associated with magical realism, his novel «The UnSimple» has been compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Biologist by education Prokhasko's prose has been called to have features of "philosophy of a plant" for its dense and meditative character.