Mykhaylo Osadchy ( uk, Осадчий Михайло Григорович; March 22, 1936 in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994 in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...

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, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and

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. Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

in 1958.OSADCHY, Mykhailo Hryhorovych
/ref> He taught there from 1960 to 1965. He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966. He was tried together with Mykhailo, Horyn's brother Bohdan Horyn, and M. Zvarychevska. Osadchy was arrested for the second time January 1972. That September he was sentenced to seven years of labour camp and three years of exile. He was able to return to teaching at Lviv University in 1990. In 1992, Osadchy became a member of the

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Literary works

Osadchy's first book of poetry, 'The Moonlit Field' ( uk, Місячне поле), was published in 1965 before his arrest. In 1971 his memoir 'Cataract' ( uk, Більмо), was published. It was translated into French in 1974HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF UKRAINE. Historical Dictionaries of Europe, no. 45 by Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, 992 pp., Scarecrow Press, 2013
and into English by Marco Carynnyk in 1976.Cataract / Mykhaylo Osadchy ; translated from the Ukrainian, edited, and annotated by Marco Carynnyk
/ref> His second collection of poems was published in 1979 and was called 'Quos ego'. The third one, 'The Scythian Altar' ( uk, Скифський вівтар), was published in 1990.

Bibliography

* M. Osadchy. Misyachne pole oonlit field— Kamenyar, Lviv, 1965 * M. Osadchy. Bilmo: Avtobiohrafichny narys ataract. An autobiographical portrait— Paris – Baltimore: Smoloskyp 1971 * M. Osadchy. Zustrich z vozhdem eeting with the leader// Ukrainsky visnyk, 1987, №8.— pp. 18–25.

References

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