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Denys Mandziuk (*29 January 1984, Lutsk) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, stand-up comedian.

Biography
Denys Mandziuk was born in Lutsk. He graduated from the Mykhailo Kravchuk Gymnasium No. 21 in Lutsk and the Faculty of Journalism at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He worked as a journalist and later became an editor at Gazeta po-Ukrayinsky and Krayina magazine. He was the head of the History and Language and Reflection departments. He lives in Lviv.

Participation in KVN
Captain of the KVN team Bomba (Mlyniv), which became the champion of the Ukrainian KVN League in 2010. He was the editor of the Kyiv KVN League "OtKlyK". Participated in comedy TV shows. Performs as a stand-up comedian.

Literary activity
In autumn 2014, he debuted with the book The Country of Galicia. It was published by the Lviv publishing house Piramida. It includes his articles from the magazine Krayina and Newspapers in Ukrainian published in 2007-2014. The subject matter of the materials is the history of Galicia from the seventeenth century to the present day. They are written in a popular science style for a wide range of readers.

He prepared materials for his second book, The Dug Ball, for over six years. It was published in 2017 by the Old Lion Publishing House. It explores the history of Ukrainian football in Galicia in the first half of the twentieth century (1909-1944).

His third book, The Right to Die, is about the outbreak of suicides in Lviv at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was published in 2022 by the Knyhova Publishing House. The preface reads: "We must understand that suicides are only the foreground. The background is no less important and interesting. Reading these tragic stories, we see Lviv in the period that is now nostalgically called the Belle Époque. We learn about the conditions in which ordinary people of that time lived, what they were interested in and afraid of, what drove them to the decision to end their own lives, and what impression these attempts made on others, how the time in which they lived affected them, and how their actions changed the era."

In 2022, he began publishing a series of collections of football reports from 1909-1944, Chronicles of the Kicked Ball. So far, one volume has been published.

Books

 * Country of Galicia (Ukrainian: Країна Галичина) - Lviv : Pyramid, 2014. - 304 p.
 * The Kicked Ball (Ukrainian: Копаний м'яч) - Lviv. : Old Lion Publishing House, 2017. - 416 p.
 * The right to die (Ukrainian: Право на смерть) - Lviv: Booker Publishing House, 2022. 268 p.