Roman Mykhailovych Kudlyk (; 4 May 1941 Jaroslaw,

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– 21 January 2019)Помер відомий український поет, багаторічний редактор журналу «Дзвін» Роман Кудлик
was a Ukrainian poet and writing critic.

Early life and education

Kudlyk was born in a family of a serviceman. In 1945 he moved to

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. In 1958 he obtained his general education in

. In 1959 he enrolled in

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and graduated in 1964.

Career

Kudlyk then obtained work as an electrician at the local oil refinery, newspaper and a magazine called ''October''. He also worked also at the Lvivian TV-studio as the head of the literal department of the Lviv regional concert hall. His writing was first published in 1957 by newspapers and magazines and then later in the collective volumes ''Apple bloom'' (, 1961) and ''Godspeed'' (, 1962). He had been a member of the National Society of Writers (

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) since 1965. He was the author of the lyrics to Volodymyr Ivasiuk's songs, I am your wing («», 1972), «» (1978), «». His writings have been put to music in the songs of Ihor Bilozir («»), and Bohdan Yanivsky. He wrote a libretto to several opera works of Bohdan Yanivsky, «» (after the roman of Roman Ivanchuk «»), ''Princess Frog'' «», ''Golden chatter'' «» (by

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), and musicals «», ''Ring of Temptation'' «». He received the Lviv regional award of and in 1997 the Literal award of for the series of poems ''Night time grape-picking''. He was the head of the magazine '' Dzvin'' and lived in

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, where he died on 21 January 2019. Some of his works were translated in several languages, including English, Bulgarian, Latvian, Russian, Romanian and French.

Publications

*''Conversation'' (Rozmova, 1963) *''Springtime billyard'' (Vesniany bilyard, 1968) *''Apple streetlamps'' (Yablunevi likhtari, 1979) *''Leaves of a wild grape'' (Lystia dykoho vynohradu)(Horishnia brama, 1991)

References

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