Dmitry Pavlychko, a famous Ukrainian poet of the sixties, translator and literary critic, has died at the age of 94.
This was announced on his Facebook page by the head of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Mikhail Sidorzhevsky.
According to him, Pavlychko died today, January 29, in the evening.
I was only informed about this by Bohdan Goryn with reference to the writer’s daughter, – said Sidorzhevsky. – Blessed memory and the Kingdom of heaven, dear and respected Dmitry Vasilyevich.
Pavlychko was born on September 28, 1929 in the village of Stopchat, Ivano-Frankivsk region, into a large peasant family.
From the autumn of 1945 to the summer of 1946 he was imprisoned on charges of belonging to the UPA. Subsequently, he said that in his youth from April to June 1945 he was in a hundred UPA. According to Pavlychko, the detachment was disbanded, and he was sent to school.
In 1953 Pavlychko graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Lviv University. In the same year, the first collection of his poems, Love and Hate, appeared.
He, in particular, is the author of the words of the popular song “Two Colors”, created in 1964.
Pavlychko was also one of the organizers of the People’s Movement of Ukraine and one of the authors of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine.
He was also a people’s deputy (in 1990-1994 and 1998-1999), ambassador to Slovakia (from October 1995 to May 1998) and Poland (from spring 1999 to February 2002), the first chairman of the Ukrainian Language Society named after Taras Shevchenko and chairman of the Ukrainian World coordinating council.
He was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine, the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise IV, V degree and the Order of Merit III degree, the Order of Freedom.
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Source: Racurs
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