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Book cover and nine interior illustrations for The Shipwright by Yurii Yanovskyi.
Forthcoming from Harvard Ukrainian Research Institue in 2026.
“The Shipwright is Yurii Yanovskyi’s dazzling 1928 novel of youth, art, cinema, and nation-making in Soviet-era Odesa. Set among young filmmakers at the famed Odesa Film Studio—the “Soviet Hollywood” of its day—the novel captures the experimental energy of early Soviet film while telling a story that is unmistakably Ukrainian. Often included on the lists of most important Ukrainian books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Shipwright appears here in English translation for the first time, restoring to Anglophone readers one of the most inventive works of modern Ukrainian literature.”