Andriy Samiylovych Malyshko (; ,

Obukhiv Obukhiv (, ) is a city in Kyiv Oblast (oblast, province) of Ukraine and the administrative center of Obukhiv Raion. It hosts the administration of Obukhiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2024, the population was 32 ...

– 17 February 1970,

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) was a Soviet Ukrainian poet, translator and singer. Many of his poems were made into songs.

Biography

Malyshko was born on 2 (15) November 1912 in Obukhiv, now a city in

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into a

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's family. After graduating from the Kyiv Institute of Popular Education in 1932, he worked as a teacher and wrote articles for a number of Soviet Ukrainian newspapers. During the

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Malyshko served as a

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. In 1944 he was appointed editor of

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magazine. Later in his career Malyshko served as member of the

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(from 3rd to 6th convocation). He died in 1970 in Kyiv.

Literary work

Malyshko started publishing his works in 1930. His early poems were dedicated to typical issues of the time and included the themes of

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, reconstruction of national economy,

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, collective labour, working man, Ukrainian history etc. However, already then Malyshko's works were characterized with deep lyricism, emotionality, presence of folklore motives and popular beliefs, feelings of beauty in relation not only to nature, but to also to the human soul. His wartime poetry can be seen as a sort of a diary showing fates and expressing feelings of different people in extraordinary circumstances. After the war Malyshko published several collections of ideologically loaded romantic poetry. During this time he dedicated many of his poems to peasant life, which was depicted in an optimistic tone very different from the reality on the ground. Starting from the late 1950s the author could finally rid his creativity of superficial generalizations and excess pathos, producing new works with original content and masterful use of verse. Malyshko's later poems contain philosophical elements, concerning themselves with the topics of technical progress and place of humanity in the world. Outside of poetry Malyshko was also known as a librettist, co-operating with composers

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and

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, as well as literary critic and translator. A number of his poems were turned into songs, most famously ''Kyiv Waltz'' and '' Song about the Towel''.

Notable publications

Poetry collections

*''Fatherland'' (, 1936) *''Lyrics'' (, 1938) - nominated for the 1947 State Prize *''From the Book of Life'' (, 1938) *''Birth of Sons'' (, 1939) *''Skylarks'' (, 1940) *''Days of Dawn'' (, 1940) *''Letters of

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Serviceman Opanas Baida'' (, 1940) *''March'' (, 1940) *''Rise for the Battle!'' (, 1941) *''Over the Fires'' (, 1942) *''My Ukraine!'' (, 1942) *''Tale of the Campaign'' (, 1943) *''Battle'' (, 1943) *''She-Prisoner'' (, 1944) *''

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'' (, 1946) *''Spring Book'' (, 1949) *''Beyond the Blue Sea'' (, 1950) - nominated for the 1951 State Prize *''Gifts to the

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'' (, 1952) *''Book of Brothers'' (, 1954) *''What is Written Down by Me'' (, 1956) *''My Mother's Heart'' (, 1959) *''Noon of Age'' (, 1960) *''Oracular Voice'' (, 1961) *''Letters at Dawn'' (, 1961) *''Transparency'' (, 1962) *''Distant Orbits'' (, 1962) - nominated for the 1964 State Prize of Ukraine *''Road Under the Sycamores'' (, 1964) - nominated for the 1969 State Prize *''Rue'' (, 1966) *''Blue Chronicle'' (, 1968) *''August of My Soul'' (, 1970)

Poems

*''Yaryna'' (, 1938) *'' Karmaliuk'' (, 1940) *''

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Danylo'' (, 1941) *''

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'' (, 1946) - nominated for the 1947 State Prize

Literary criticism

*''Thoughts on Poetry'' (, 1959) *''Word about a Poet. M.T. Rylskyi and his works'' (, 1960)

Awards and honors

* Two

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(1960, 1962) *

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(1944) *

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(1967) *

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(1943) *

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(1939) * Two Stalin Prizes (1947, 1951) *

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(1969) *

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(1964)

Sources

*Українська Літературна Енциклопедія. — К., 1995. — Т. 3: К-Н. — С. 267-286.

References

External links

*
Andriy Malyshko
in the

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Andriy Malyshko at "TOU"
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