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My Books

Fiction by Oleh Shynkarenko — novels and short fiction exploring metamodernism, post-apocalyptic Ukraine, propaganda, and the fragility of identity.

My Books

Five books in Ukrainian and one English translation, spanning surrealist short prose, post-apocalyptic speculative novels, and politically charged satire — each interrogating identity, language, memory, and the Ukrainian experience through a metamodern lens.


How to Disappear Completely
How to Disappear Completely 2006 · Short Fiction

A debut that tests how far language and the reader's sense of stability can bend — winner of the Smoloskyp Literary Award.

Kaharlyk
Kaharlyk 2014 · Novel

A post-apocalyptic Ukraine a century after Russian-Ukrainian war — where history has become a set of rumors and identity a set of competing uploads.

Kaharlyk, English edition
Kaharlyk (English translation) 2016 · Novel in translation

The English edition of Kaharlyk, translated by Stephen Komarnyckyj and published by Kalyna Language Press in the UK.

The First Ukrainian Robots
The First Ukrainian Robots 2016 · Novel

A speculative love triangle that dismantles its own logic — asking whether there is any meaningful boundary left between the human and the artificial.

Cherep
Cherep 2017 · Novel

A grotesque journey through propaganda and imperial myth — war begins not with weapons, but with language that erases ambiguity.

Bandera Distortion
Bandera Distortion 2019 · Novel

Refuses to resolve Bandera into a single meaning — an uncomfortable study in how societies construct and weaponise historical figures.