This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the

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Victoria Amelina Viktoriia Amelina (; ; 1 January 1986 – 1 July 2023), was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Lit ...

(1986–2023), poet and novelist * Nikolai Amosov (1913–2002), novelist, essayist, and medical writer * Emma Andijewska (born 1931), novelist, poet, and short story writer * Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998), journalist, translator, and biographer * Sofia Andrukhovych (born 1982), novelist, translator, and editor * Yuri Andrukhovych (born 1960), novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, and translator * Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (1899–1984), writer, translator and linguist * Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937), poet, translator, and editor

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* Kateryna Babkina (born 1985), poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter * Anna Bagriana (born 1981), novelist, poet, playwright, and translator * Ivan Bahrianyi (1906–1963), poet, novelist, and essayist * Mykola Bakay (1931–1998), poet, and songwriter * Vasyl Barka (1908–2003), poet, writer, literary critic, and translator * Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879–1943), historian, theologian, and bibliographer * Hanna Barvinok (1828–1911), writer and folklorist * Mykola Bazhan (1904–1983), poet, editor, and translator * Natalia Belchenko (born 1973), poet and translator * Oles Berdnyk (1927–2003), science fiction writer, futurist and globalist, philosopher and theologian * Nina Bichuya (born 1937), novelist, and children's writer * Natalka Bilotserkivets (born 1954), poet, and translator * Dmytro Blazheyovskyi (1910–2011), historian, and theologian *

Osip Bodyansky Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky (; ; 31 October 1808 – 6 September 1877) was a Russian Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent who studied and taught at the Imperial Moscow University. Bodyansky's close friends included Nikolai Gogol, Sergey Aksakov, Mi ...

(1808–1878), poet, memoirist, historian, and ethnographer * Levko Borovykovsky (1806–1889), romantic poet, writer, translator, and folklorist.

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* Dniprova Chayka (1861–1927), poet, short story writer, and children's writer * Artem Chapeye (born 1981), writer, reporter, translator, and activist * Olena Chekan (1946–2013), actress, voice artist, screenwriter, journalist and social activist * Artem Chekh (born 1985), writer and journalist *

Marko Cheremshyna Marko Cheremshyna () (pen name of Ivan Semaniuk), (born 13 June 1874 in Kobaky, Galicia; died 25 April 1927 in Kobaky) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background. Biography Cheremshyna was born into a poor peasant family in Kobaky. He ea ...

(1874–1927), short story writer, and translator * Tetiana Cherep-Perohanych (born 1974), poet, novelist, playwright and journalist * Boris Chichibabin (1923–1994), poet * Daria Chubata (born 1940), physician, writer, and poet *

Taras Chubay Taras Hryhorovych Chubay (), (born on 21 June 1970 in Lviv) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian musician and poet, singer and composer, leader of the Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiyi. Biography and personal life Taras Chubay was born on 21 June 1970 in th ...

(born 1970), poet, and songwriter * Pavlo Chubynsky (1839–1884), poet and ethnographer * Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971), poet, writer, playwright

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* Larysa Denysenko (born 1973), writer, lawyer, human rights activist, TV and radio presenter * Myroslav Dochynets (born 1959), novelist, short story writer, and journalist *

Dmytro Dontsov Dmytro Ivanovych Dontsov (; – 30 March 1973) was a Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker whose radical ideas, known as integral nationalism, were a major influence on the Organization of Ukrainian Nati ...

(1883–1973), editor, publisher, journalist, and literary critic * Ivan Drach (born 1936), poet, screenwriter, and literary critic and political activist *

Mykhailo Drahomanov Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov (; 18 September 1841 – 2 July 1895) was a Ukrainian intellectual and public figure. As an academic, Drahomanov was an economist, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, while as a public intellectual he was a ...

(1841–1895), intellectual, publisher, economist, historian, philosopher and ethnographer * Yuriy Drohobych (1450–1494), philosopher, science writer, theologian, and ethnographer * Alexander Dukhnovich (1803–1865), poet, historian, and ethnographer * Bohdana Durda (born 1940), writer, poet and songwriter * Ivan Dziuba (1931–2022), literary critic, social activist and dissident *

Tetiana Dziuba Tetiana Anatoliivna Dziuba (née Murzenko; born 19 July 1966) is a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, journalist, and translator. Doctor of Sciences in Social Communications, Professor, People's Poet of Ukraine, and member of the National Union of ...

(born 1966), writer, literary critic, journalist and translator

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* Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny (1894–1925), poet, and journalist * Hryhorii Epik (1901–1937), novelist, short story writer, journalist, screenwriter, and publisher

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* Yuriy Fedkovych (1834–1888), short story writer, poet, folklorist, editor, and translator * Moysey Fishbein (born 1946), poet, editor, and translator *

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

(1856–1916), novelist, poet, literary critic, journalist, and translator * Petro Franko (1890–1941), novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter

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* Vasyl Gogol-Yanovsky (1777–1825), poet, and playwright * Yuriy Gorlis-Gorsky (1898–1946) writer, public figure * Viktor Grabovskyj (born 1942), poet, translator, literary critic, and journalist * Lydia Grigorieva (born 1945), poet *

Nataliya Gumenyuk Nataliya Petrivna Gumenyuk (; alternate Romanization of Ukrainian, Romanization: Natalia Humeniuk; born 1983) is a Ukrainian journalist and author specializing in foreign affairs and conflict reporting. She is a co-founder and CEO of the Public Int ...

(born 1983), journalist and writer

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* Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk (born 1971), poet, historian, science writer, and ethnographer *

Yaroslav Halan Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan (, party nickname ''Comrade Yaga''; 27 July 1902 – 24 October 1949) was a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist. A member of the Communist Party of Western Ukra ...

(1902–1949), playwright, publicist, journalist, translator and radio host * Leonid Hlibov (1827–1893), poet, fabulist, children's writer, and editor * Volodymyr Hnatiuk (1871–1926), folklorist, translator, ethnographer, and journalist * Yakub Holovatsky (1814–1888), historian, ethnographer, bibliographer, and poet *

Oles Honchar Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar (; []; 3 April 1918 – 14 July 1995) was a Soviet and Ukraine, Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian parliament. Biograp ...

(1918–1995), novelist, poet, short story writer, and journalist *

Yevhen Hrebinka Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka (; ; 2 February 1812 – 15 December 1848) was a Ukrainian romantic prose writer, poet, and philanthropist. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. He was an older brother of the architect . Life and car ...

(1812–1848), poet, fabulist, novelist, short story writer, and translator * Borys Hrinchenko (1863–1910), historian, poet, and ethnographer * Hrytsko Hryhorenko (1867–1924), poet, short story writer, translator, and journalist *

Volodymyr Huba Volodymyr Petrovych Huba (22 December 19383 December 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and poet. Career Born in Kyiv, he studied music at the Kyiv Conservatory (which is now the National Music Academy of Ukraine) with professors Levko Revutsky, ...

(born 1938), poet * Dokiya Humenna (1904–1996), writer * Yevhen Hutsalo (1937–1995), poet, novelist, journalist, and children's writer

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* Myroslav Irchan (1897–1937), storywriter and playwright. *

Oksana Ivanenko Oksana Dmytrivna Ivanenko (; March 31, 1906 – December 16, 1997) was a Ukrainian children's writer and translator. In 1974, she was the winner of the Lesia Ukrainka Literary Prize for the novels ''Рідні діти'' (Native Children), '' ...

(1906–1997), children's writer and translator * Roman Ivanychuk (1929–2016), writer and politician *

Volodymyr Ivasyuk Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasiuk (, 4 March 1949 – 24–27 April 1979) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta (song), Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia ...

(1949–1979), poet, and songwriter

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Igor Kaczurowskyj Ihor Kaczurowskyj (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: ''Ігор Васильович Качуровський''; 1 September 1918, in Nizhyn, Ukraine – 18 July 2013, in Munich, Germany) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, novelist and short story w ...

(1918–2013), poet, translator, novelist, short story writer, literary scholar, and journalist * Ihor Kalynets (born 1939), poet *

Irena Karpa Irena Karpa () was born in 1980; she is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and singer. Biography Irena Karpa was born on 8 December 1980 in Cherkasy ( Central Ukraine), and grew up in the Subcarpathian region (Prykarpattia). Since 1999 she has ...

(1980), songwriter, and journalist * Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), short story writer, historian, and publisher * Hrytsko Kernerenko (1863–1941), poet *

Hnat Khotkevych Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych (, also ''Gnat Khotkevich'' or ''Hnat Khotkevych'', born December 31, 1877 – died October 8, 1938) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian theater and public figure, engineer, inventor, writer, historian, translator, ethnographe ...

(1877–1938), novelist, short story writer, ethnographer, and playwright * Mykola Khvylovy (1893–1933), poet, short story writer, and novelist * Max Kidruk (born 1984), novelist, short story writer, and travel writer *

Iya Kiva Iya Kiva (another spelling - Ija Kiva) (; born May 4, 1984) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, journalist, and critic. She is the author of the books, ''Подальше от рая'' (Further from Heaven), ''Перша сторінка зими'' ...

(born 1984), poet, translator, journalist, and critic * Marianna Kiyanovska (born 1973), poet and translator * Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942), novelist, short story writer, and playwright *

Oleksandr Konysky Oleksandr Yakovych Konysky (18 August 1836 – 12 December 1900) was a Ukrainian interpreter, writer, lexicographer, pedagogue, poet, and civil activist of liberal direction. He had around 150 pen names, including О. Return-freedom (), F. Gorov ...

(1836–1900), novelist, poet, educator, and publisher *

Oleksandr Korniychuk Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk (; ; – 14 May 1972) was a Soviet and Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official. His plays include ''The Death of the Squadron'' (1933), ''Platon Krechet'' (1934), ''Bohdan Khmelnytsky'' (1938), ...

(1905–1972), playwright, and literary critic. * Ivan Feodosiyovych Korsak (born 1946), poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and editor * Nataliya Kobrynska (1851–1920), novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher * Natalena Koroleva (1888–1966), novelist, short story writer *

Sonya Koshkina Kseniia Mykytivna Vasylenko (; born July 8, 1985), better known by the pen name Sonya Koshkina ();, is a Ukraine, Ukrainian journalist, who is also co-owner and editor-in-chief of the Electronic publishing, online publication, LB.ua. Early life ...

(born 1985), journalist, author * Lina Kostenko (born 1930), poet, novelist, and children's writer * Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769–1838), poet and playwright *

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky (; 17 September 1864 – 25 April 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of an e ...

(1864–1913), novelist and short story writer * Uliana Kravchenko (1860–1947), educator, writer and poet * Svitlana Kryvoruchko (born 1975), journalist, and editor * Roman Kudlyk (born 1941), poet, editor, and literary critic * Ivan Kulyk (1897–1937), poet, and translator * Mykola Kulish (1892–1937), playwright, and poet * Panteleimon Kulish (1819–1897), novelist, literary critic, poet, folklorist, historian, and translator * Zenon Kuzela (1882–1952), journalist, historian, and editor * Hryhory Kvitka-Osnovianenko (1778–1843), playwright, novelist, short story writer, and journalist

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Bohdan Lepky Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky, (, 9 November 1872 – 21 July 1941) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist. He was born on 9 November 1872, in the village of Kryvenke, in the same house where the Polish ...

(1872–1941), poet, and translator *

Serhiy Leshchenko Serhiy Leshchenko (, 30 August, 1980) is a Ukrainian ex-journalist, politician and public figure, Member of Parliament ( 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada). From 2002 until 2014, Leshchenko worked as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief and as a special cor ...

(born 1980), journalist, and editor * Oleh Lysheha (1949–2014), poet, playwright, and translator * Myroslav Laiuk (born 1990), novelist, poet, scriptwriter

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* Mykhaylo Maksymovych (1804–1873), historian, educator, and folklorist * Ivan Malkovych (born 1961), poet, and publisher * Volodymyr Malyk (1921–1998), novelist * Mykola Markevych (1804–1860), historian, ethnographer, and poet * Yaroslav Melnyk (born 1959), novelist, short story writer, and literary critic * Amvrosii Metlynsky (1814–1870), poet, ethnographer, and publisher. * Eugene Miroshnichenko (born 1939), critic, historian and journalist * Pavlo Movchan (born 1939), poet * Panas Myrny (1849–1920), novelist, and playwright

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Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer. Biography Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on to the family of a peasant priest in Stebliv (Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine). In 1847 he en ...

(1838–1918), novelist, short story writer, and playwright * Vsevolod Nestayko (1930–2014), children's writer

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* Theodore Odrach (1912–1964), novelist, short story writer, and memoirist *

Oleksandr Oles Oleksandr Oles (born Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba, ; 1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainians, Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944. ...

(1878–1944), poet, and playwright * Yaroslav Oros (born 1959), novelist and journalist

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* Tomasz Padura (1801–1871), poet, and songwriter * Atena Pashko (1931–2012), chemical engineer, poet, social activist * Dmytro Pavlychko (1929–2023), poet, translator, and screenwriter *

Ihor Pavlyuk Ihor Pavlyuk (sometimes spelled as Ihor Pawlyuk, Igor Pavlyk, Igor Pavluk; Ukrainian: І́гор Зино́війович Павлю́к, Russian: Игорь Зиновьевич Павлюк, born 1 January 1967 in Rozhysche Raion, Ukrainian S ...

(born 1967), poet, novelist, and essayist *

Olena Pchilka Olha Petrivna Kosach (birth name, née Drahomanova 29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka (), was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the ...

(1849–1930), poet, ethnographer, and translator * Halyna Petrosanyak (born 1969), poet, writer and translator * Viktor Petrov (1894–1969), novelist, and science writer * Mariyka Pidhiryanka (1881–1963), poet, and children's writer * Valerian Pidmohylny (1901–1937), novelist, short story writer, translator, and literary critic * Les Podervianskyi (born 1952), playwright, and poet * Yuri Pokalchuk (1941–2008), poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, and literary critic * Valentyn Prodaievych (born 1960), journalist and writer * Svitlana Pyrkalo (born 1976), novelist, essayist, editor, and journalist

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* Valentyn Rechmedin (1916–1986), novelist, journalist, editor, and literary critic *

Maksym Rylsky Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (); in Kyiv – 24 July 1964 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, academician, and doctor of philological sciences. Biography Rylsky was born in Kyiv in 1895 to Tadei Rozeslavovych Rylsky and Melania Fedoriv ...

(1895–1964), poet

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* Ulas Samchuk (1905–1987), journalist, and publicist * Mariana Savka (born 1973), poet, children's writer, translator and a publisher * Mykhaylo Semenko (1892–1937), poet, and editor * Iryna Senyk (1926–2009), poet *

Markiyan Shashkevych Markiian Semenovych Shashkevych (; November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and th ...

(1811–1843), poet, and translator *

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

(1814–1861), poet, playwright, folklorist, and ethnographer * Vasyl Shkliar (born 1951), writer and political activist * Iryna Shuvalova (born 1986), poet, translator and scholar * Lyubov Sirota (born 1956), poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, and translator * Liudmyla Skyrda (born 1945), poet, translator, and literary critic * Maryna Sokolyan (born 1979), novelist, short story writer, and playwright * Volodymyr Sosiura (1898–1965), poet * Mykhailo Starytsky (1840–1904), poet, novelist, and playwright *

Vasyl Stefanyk Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk (; May 14, 1871 – December 7, 1936) was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918. Biography Early years Vasyl Stefanyk was ...

(1871–1936), short story writer * Ivan Steshenko (1873–1918), poet, journalist, editor, and translator * Vasyl Stus (1938–1985), poet, and publicist * Vasyl Symonenko (1935–1963), poet, and journalist

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* Yuriy Tarnawsky (born 1934) fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and literary criticism * Olena Teliha (1906–1942), novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic *

Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk Hryhoriy Mykhailovych Tiutiunnyk (; born 23 April 1920 in Shylivka, Poltava Governorate, Ukrainian SSR – died 29 August 1961 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian lyric poet, writer. His brother was the writer Hryhir ...

(1920–1961), poet * Tryzuby Stas (1948–2007), poet and songwriter * Volodymyr Tsybulko (born 1964), poet *

Pavlo Tychyna Pavlo Hryhorovych Tychyna (; – September 16, 1967) was a major Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. He composed the lyrics to the Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Lif ...

(1891–1967), poet and translator

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Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

(1871–1913), poet, playwright, literary critic, and essayist

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Ivan Vahylevych Ivan Mykolaiovych Vahylevych (; born 2 September 1811 in Yasen, today in Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire – died 10 May 1866 in Lviv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a Ukrainian Romantic poet, philologist, and ethno ...

(1811–1866), poet, and ethnographer * Iryna Vilde (1907–1982), writer and correspondent * Lesya Voronyna (born 1955), writer, translator and journalist * Marko Vovchok (1833–1907), novelist, short story writer, and translator * Vira Vovk (born 1926), poet, novelist, playwright, and translator *

Volodymyr Vynnychenko Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko (; – March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright and artist who served as the first List of prime ministers of Ukraine, prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic.< ...

(1880–1951), novelist, short story writer, and playwright * Leonid Vysheslavsky (1914–2002), poet, literary critic, and translator * Ostap Vyshnya (1889–1956), short story writer, and journalist

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* Sofia Yablonska (1907–1971) writer, photographer and architect. * Tetiana Yakovenko (born 1954), poet, literary critic, teacher * Mykhailo Yalovy (1895–1937), novelist, poet, playwright, and editor * Volodymyr Yaniv (1908–1981), poet * Lyubov Yanovska (1861–1933), novelist, short story writer, and playwright * Yevheniya Yaroshynska (1868–1904), journalist, short story writer, editor, and translator * Volodymyr Yavorivsky (1942–2021), novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist * Dmytro Yavornytsky (1855–1940), historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer * Serhiy Yefremov (1876–1939), journalist, and literary critic * Volodymyr Yermolenko (born 1980), philosopher, essayist and translator *

Ivan Yizhakevych Ivan Sydorovych Yizhakevych (; January 18, 1864 – January 19, 1962) was a Soviet and Ukrainian painter and writer, People's Painter of the Ukrainian SSR (1951). Life, education and work Yizhakevych was born in the village of Vyshnopil, Kiev Go ...

(1864–1962), painter and writer * Olexiy Yurin (born 1982), poet

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* Oksana Zabuzhko (born 1960), novelist, poet, essayist *

Pavlo Zahrebelnyi Pavlo Arkhypovych Zahrebelnyi () or Zagrebelnyi (, Romanization of Russian, romanized: ''Pavel Arkhipovich Zagrebelny)''; 25 August 1924 – 3 February 2009) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Ukraine, Ukrainian novelist. Biography He graduated from ...

(1924–2009), novelist, and short story writer * Mykola Zerov (1890–1937), poet, translator, and literary critic * Serhiy Zhadan (born 1974), poet, novelist, essayist, and translator * Iryna Zhylenko (born 1941–2013), poet, short story writer, and children's writer

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