Справжнє ім'я Павло Михайлович Губенко. Український письменник, новеліст, класик сатиричної прози ХХ ст. Перший надрукований твір Остапа Вишні — «Демократичні реформи Денікіна (Фелейтон. Матеріалом для …
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing pro…
Микола Куліш - the most famous Ukrainian playwright of the twentieth century. After his mother’s early death, Kulish spent most of his childhood in orphanages and charity homes. He finished his early …
Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Коцюбинський), (September 17, 1864 – April 25, 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the sta…
Prose writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918. Stefanyk's whole literary output consisted of 59 published novellas, most of them no longer than a cou…
A pioneering Ukrainian modernist writer; sister of Yuliian Kobyliansky. A self-educated and well-read woman, her first novellen were written in German, beginning in 1880. From 1891 she lived in Cherni…
Lesya Ukrainka (born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (February 25, 1871 – August 1, 1913) is one of is one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She also was an…
Український радянський письменник-класик, лауреат Сталінської премії (1949). Народився 27 серпня 1902 року в селі Майєрове (тепер село Нечаївка Компаніївського району Кіровоградської області) в селянсь…
Writer and translator. He graduated from high school in Katerynoslav in 1918 and then continued his studies at Kyiv University. In 1921 he began working with various publishing houses and joined the e…
Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer, director and writer. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudov…
Український письменник-прозаїк. Григір Михайлович Тютюнник народився 5 грудня 1931 року в селі Щилівці на Полтавщині в селянській сім'ї. 1937 року батька майбутнього письменника заарештували й відправ…
Poet and playwright; the ‘founder’ of modern Ukrainian literature. After studying at the Poltava Theological Seminary (1780–9), he worked as a tutor at rural gentry estates, where he became acquainted…
Український письменник і літературний критик, поліглот, учитель середніх шкіл Галичини. Народився 22 лютого 1880 року в селі Оглядів (нині Радехівський район Львівської області) у родині тесляра. Був н…
Poet, writer, and publicist Ivan Bahrianyi was lucky – twice he managed to leave the Soviet camps alive. Later, he was able to leave the USSR. In his homeland, his name was erase…
Mykola Khvylovy (Ukrainian: Микола Хвильовий, Khvyl’ovyy) (December 13 [O.S. December 1] 1893 – May 13, 1933) was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance (1920–193…
