Education
Born in 1942 in Crijopol raion of Jugastru county (today part of Vinnytsia Oblast), Yavorivsky graduated from the Odessa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature".
Born in 1942 in Crijopol raion of Jugastru county (today part of Vinnytsia Oblast), Yavorivsky graduated from the Odessa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature".
He worked as an editor on the local radio, as a newspaper reporter ("Zaporizka pravda", "Literaturna Ukraina", "Prapor Yunosti"), a scriptwriter on Lviv television, a literary consultant, a referent of the Writer"s Union of Ukraine and as the department chief and deputy editor to Vitchizna Magazine. In the late 1980s, Yavorivsky began his active political career. He was a people"s deputy of the last Supreme Soviet of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1989–1991 and became one of the founders of People"s Movement of Ukraine.
In the 4th Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2002–2006), Volodymyr Yavorivsky belonged to the Our Ukraine fraction and in the 5th and 6th (present) Rada convocation to the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc fraction.
In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into parliament by winning a constituency in Kiev for Batkivschyna. Yavorivsky combined parliamentary functions with the position of the Writer"s Union of Ukraine Chairman (appointed October 2001).
Batkivshchyna, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Volodymyr Yavorivsky took active part in defending the rights of the Chernobyl accident victims.