Andriy Bondar is one of the most popular and, at the same time, one of the most unread among the younger generation of Ukrainian poets. Bondar was born in Kamianets-Podolsky, Ukraine, in 1974. He studied history and literary theory at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 1998 he published his first collection of poems, “Vesinnia yeres” (“Spring heresy”), followed by “Istyna i med” (2001, “Truth and honey”) and “Prymityvni formy vlasnosti” (2004, “Primitive forms of ownership”) as well as numerous stories, essays and articles for various magazines.