Yurko Prokhasko (born 1970 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) is a Germanist, translator, essayist, journalist (Krytyka, Ji, Tygodnik Powszechny, Die Zeit, Kafka, La Repubblica, Falter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Volltext, Süddeutsche Zeitung), psychoanalyst, and group psychoanalyst. He studied German studies (1987-1992) and psychology (2004-2009) at the University of Lviv and completed training as a group analyst in Altaussee (Austria, 1997-2007). He has translated from German (including J.W. Goethe, H. v. Kleist, R. Musil, J. Roth, F. Kafka, R.M. Rilke, H. v. Hofmannsthal, W. Benjamin, S. Freud), Polish (J. Wittlin , J. Iwaszkiewicz, L. Kołakowski) and Yiddish (D. Vogel). He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts (Dresden, since 2007) and the German Academy for Language and Poetry (since 2022). In 2008, he was awarded the Friedrich Gundolf Prize by the German Academy for Language and Poetry for communicating German culture abroad (Darmstadt) and the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation, Translatio. He is a member of the Ukrainian Center of the International PEN Club. He lives in Lviv, where he teaches at the Ivan Franko University and the Psychoanalytic Institute, which he co-founded (2010), as well as working as a psychoanalyst.