# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasyl-makhno
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:01:16.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasyl-makhno"
name: "Vasyl Makhno"
slug: "vasyl-makhno"
description: "Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Winter Letters and Other Poems, translated by Orest Popovych and, most recently, I want to be Jazz and Rock’n’Roll. He has also published two books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty (2011). Makhno has translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian. His poems and essays have been translated into 25 languages, and he is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry. Makhno currently lives in New York City."
tagline: "Poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/02016_Vasyl_Makhno%2C_Sanok.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wasyl Machno"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump