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Vasyl Vrublevsky (9.04.1963) was born in the village of Karvynivka, Zhytomyr oblast and graduated from the local school, afterwards he completed philological studies at the Zhytomyr teachers’ college. He worked for Zhytomyr newspapers, and at Periodyka and Visnyk publishing houses. In 1989, together with Volodymyr Danylenko and Yaroslav Zayko, he published an “underground” literary-publicistic almanach Zhytniy rynok (Rye Market) in Zhytomyr. In 1990 he initiated the creation of the literary-artistic journal Avzhezh! (Indeed!), being its permanent editor since the very beginning. In 1993 he established publishing house “Avzhezh! Publishers”. Through the efforts of Vasyl Vrublevsky several dozen books, mostly by young authors, have been published. He is also the editor of the Nova literaturna hazeta (New Literary Gazette).

Vasyl Vrublevsky is the author of two prosaic books: Zamakh na Henseka (Attempt on the Life of the Secretary-General, 1992) and Sim istoriy (Seven Stories, 1993), a collection of poetry Svyato ostannoyi nochi (The Feast of the Last Night, 1993), compiler and author of the introduction to the anthology Proklyatoho viku struna (The String of a Damned Age, 1992).

 He also appears as a literary critic (ca. 20 articles in various periodic) and as a researcher of Ukrainian literature of the first quarter of the 20th century.