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Valeriy Oleksandrovych Shevchuk (; 20 August 1939 – 6 May 2025) was a Ukrainian writer.
Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shevchuk, Valeriy 1939 births 2025 deaths Writers from Zhytomyr Ukrainian translators Ukrainian literary historians Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
Life and career
Shevchuk was born on 20 August 1939 to a family of a shoemaker. In 1956, wanting to become a geologist, he applied to the Lviv Institute of Forestry but failed the entrance exam. After this he started working in a concrete factory. A year later, he started studying philology inKyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
. After graduating, he started working in a newspaper called ''Young Guard'' as a correspondent.
Shevchuk published his first work, a story about 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 ...
titled "Nastunka", in 1961.
Shevchuk died on 6 May 2025, at the age of 85.
Awards
* Shevchenko National Prize
Shevchenko National Prize (; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since 1961. It is named after the inspirer of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko. It is one of the five ...
(Ukraine, 1988)
* Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise
The Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise () is a Ukrainian award. It is awarded for distinguished services to the state and people of the Ukrainian nation in the field of state building, strengthening the international prestige of Ukraine, develop ...
in 5th class (Ukraine, 1999)
* 25 Years of Independence of Ukraine Medal (Ukraine, 2016)
Valeriy Shevchuk was an Honoured Professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and of the National University of Lviv. He was a laureate of the Antonovych Foundation Award and of other numerous literary awards. He is also an honored figure of Polish Culture
The culture of Poland () is the product of its Geography of Poland, geography and distinct historical evolution, which is closely connected to History of Poland, an intricate thousand-year history. Poland has a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic ma ...
. His works have been translated into 22 languages.
In 2011, Valeriy Shevchuk Prize was instituted by the Ivan Franko Zhytomyr State University.
Notable works
*“In the Midweek” (1967) *“The Esplanade 12” (1968) *“The Scream of the Rooster at Dawn” (1979) *“On a Humble Field” (1983) *“A House on a Mountain” (1983) *“Three Leaves Behind the Window” (1986), *“The Thinking Tree” (1986) *“Birds from an Invisible Island” (1989) *“The Murrain” (1989) *“An Eternal Clock” (1990) *“The Woman of Flowers” (1990 – the collection of fairy tales) *“The path in the Grass. The Zhytomyr Saga” (two-volume, 1994) *“Inside the Belly of an Apocalyptic Beast” (1995) *“ Eye of the Abyss” (1996) *“The Snakewoman” (1998) *“Silver Milk” (2002) *“The Vanishing Shadows. A Family Chronicle.” (2002) *“The Cossack State: Studies to the History of Establishment of the Ukrainian State” (1995) *“The Roxelany Muse: the Ukrainian Literature of 16th to 18th Centuries in 2 Volumes” (2005) *“The Known and the Unknown Sphinx.Hryhorii Skovoroda
Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda (; , ; , ; 3 December 1722 – 9 November 1794), was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer ...
in the Modern View” (2008)
He compiled several collections of love poetry of the 16th to 19th centuries and translated them into modern literary language, such as "Songs of Cupid" (1984) and heroic poetry of the 9th and 10th centuries “Field of Mars” in 2 volumes (1989), “ The Chronicle of Samiylo Velychko” (two-volume, 1991), etc.
Publications in English
''The Meek Shall Inherit...'' (trans. of ''Na poli smyrennomu''). Trans. by Viktoriia Kholmohorova. Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 1989.References
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Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shevchuk, Valeriy 1939 births 2025 deaths Writers from Zhytomyr Ukrainian translators Ukrainian literary historians Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class