1. Lina Kostenko (1930)

Ukrainian Writer

Lina Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet and writer recipient of the Shevchenko Award. Kostenko is a leading representative of Ukrainian poets of the sixties known as Shestydesiantnyky. This group started...

2. Sofia Andrukhovych (1982)

Ukrainian Writer

Sofia Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian writer and translator.

3. Moysey Fishbein (1946)

Ukrainian Writer

Moysey Fishbeyn is an influential Ukrainian poet and translator of Jewish origin. He was born in 1946 in Chernivtsi in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.

4. Svitlana Pyrkalo (1976)

Ukrainian Writer

Svitlana Pyrkalo is a London-based writer journalist and translator who writes in Ukrainian English and Russian. She graduated from the Kyiv National University linguistics faculty and currently lives and works...

5. Lyubov Holota (1949)

Ukrainian Writer

Lyobov Holota is a Ukrainian author. She has written prose works poetry and journalism and was granted the award of Honoured Cultural Worker of Ukraine. In 2008 she became a...

6. Vasyl Stefanyk (1871)

Ukrainian Writer

Vasyl' Semenovych Stefanyk was a classical Ukrainian prose writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament 1908-1918. Vasyl Stefanyk was born on May 14 1871 in...

7. Oles Ulianenko (1962)

Ukrainian Writer

Oles Stanislavovych Ulianenko was born on August 14 1962 in Khorol of Poltava region – died on August 17 2010 in Kyiv) was the most radical and the most cruel...

8. Oksana Zabuzhko (1960)

Ukrainian Writer

Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian poet writer and essayist.

9. Yuriy Shcherbak (1934)

Ukrainian Writer

Yuriy M. Scherbak – Ukrainian writer screenwriter publicist epidemiologist politician diplomat and environmental activist. Doctor of Medicine Laureate of Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize and O. Dovzhenko State Prize.

10. Taras Chubay (1970)

Ukrainian Writer

Taras Hryhorovych Chubay is a Ukrainian musician and poet. He is the son of the poet Hryhoriy Chubay. He studied at Lviv Conservatory. Taras Chubay founded the Plach Yeremiji...

11. Vladimir Arenev (1978)

Ukrainian Writer

Vladimir Arenev is a pen name of Ukrainian science fiction fantasy award winning writer journalist and screenwriter Vladimir Puziy. Writes in Russian and Ukrainian languages resides in Kiev Ukraine.

12. Bohdan Lepky (1872)

Ukrainian Writer

Bohdan Lepky was a prominent Ukrainian writer poet scholar public figure artist and patriot. It seems symbolic today that the future writer was born on November 9 1872 in the...

13. Maryna Sokolyan (1979)

Ukrainian Writer

Maryna Sokolyan is a Ukrainian author. The critical reviews define her work as “uncommon event in a contemporary fiction” and draw attention to the exquisite and well-cultivated language and to...

14. Leonid Hlibov (1827)

Ukrainian Writer

Leonid Ivanovych Hlibov was a Ukrainian poet writer teacher and civic figure.

15. Mykhailo Starytsky (1840)

Ukrainian Writer

Mykhailo Starytsky was a Ukrainian writer poet and playwright. He was the cousin of the famous Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko and a father-in-law to Ivan Steshenko. He was orphaned early...

16. Mykhailo Yalovy (1895)

Ukrainian Writer

Mykhailo Yalovy of the Russian Empire - died November 3 1937 in Svirlag Leningrad Oblast Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist prosaic drama writer.

17. Mykola Bazhan (1904)

Ukrainian Writer

Mykola Platonovych Bazhan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer poet highly decorated political and public figure.

18. Vasyl Barka (1908)

Ukrainian Writer

Vasyl Barka was an American residing Ukrainian poet writer literary critic and translator.

19. Mykola Khvylovy (1893)

Ukrainian Writer

Mykola Khvylovy was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance. Born as Mykola Fitilyov in Trostyanets Kharkov Governorate to a Russian laborer father and...

20. Anatoly Kasheida (1928)

Ukrainian Writer

Anatoly Fedorovich Kasheida ; August 14 1928 Talne USSR— June 19 1998 Uman Ukraine) was a Soviet writer poet journalist of Ukrainian descent. In 1947 graduated from Baku naval preparatory...

21. Ihor Pavlyuk (1967)

Ukrainian Writer

Ihor Pavlyuk is a Ukrainian writer and research worker. He is a winner of the People’s Taras Shevchenko Prize Hryhorii Skovoroda prize International Nikolai Gogol literary prize «Triumph» Winner of...

22. Oleh Lysheha (1949)

Ukrainian Writer

Oleh Lysheha is a Ukrainian poet playwright translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968 where during his last year he was expelled for his participation in an unofficial...

23. Mikhoel Felsenbaum (Unknow)

Ukrainian Writer

Mikhoel Felzenbaum ; is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist poet and playwright. He grew up in the Bessarabian city of Floreşti. He studied stage directing theatre and art history in Leningrad...

24. Roman Kudlyk (1941)

Ukrainian Writer

Roman Mykhailovych Kudlyk is a Ukrainian poet and writing critic.

25. Roman Kukhar (Unknow)

Ukrainian Writer

Roman Mikhailovich Kukhar Кухар Роман Михайлович was Ukrainian poet writer and professor at Kansas State University USA.

26. Oleksandr Konysky (1836)

Ukrainian Writer

Oleksandr Yakovych Konysky – was a Ukrainian interpreter writer lexicographer pedagogue poet and civil activist of liberal direction. He had several pen names О. Return-freedom F. Gorovenko V. Burkun Perebendia...

27. Hanna Yablonska (1981)

Ukrainian Writer

Hanna Hryhorivna Mashutina known under her pseudonyms Anna Yablonskaya or Hanna Yablonska was a Ukrainian playwright and poet and one of the victims of the 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing.

28. Orest Somov (1793)

Ukrainian Writer

Orest Mikhailovich Somov was a Ukrainian romantic writer who wrote in the Russian language. He was a writer journalist literary critic and translator. Somov was born in Vovchansk Kharkiv...

29. Mariyka Pidhiryanka (1881)

Ukrainian Writer

Mariyka Pidhiryanka was a Ukrainian poet best remembered for her children's poetry though she also wrote adult work on patriotic themes.

30. Ivan Mavrodi (1911)

Ukrainian Writer

Ivan Mavrodi was a Bulgarian-Ukrainian Soviet writer and poet. Ivan Mavrodi was born in the largely Bulgarian village of Katarzhino later Stalino now Krasnoznamenka Odessa Oblast Ukraine to a family...

31. Ivan Drach (1936)

Ukrainian Writer

Ivan Drach is a Ukrainian poet screenwriter literary critic politician dissident and political activist. Drach played an important role in the founding of Rukh – the People's Movement of...

32. Grigori Machtet (Unknow)

Ukrainian Writer

Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. He is the author of the well-known song «Tormented to death by a heavy captivity». Machtet with his associates...

33. Yuriy Fedkovych (1834)

Ukrainian Writer

Osyp Yuriy Fedkovych was a Ukrainian writer poet folklorist and translator.

34. Pavlo Chubynsky (Unknow)

Ukrainian Writer

Pavlo Platonovych Chubynsky was a Ukrainian poet and ethnographer whose poem Shche ne vmerla Ukraina was set to music and adapted as the Ukrainian national anthem. Chubynsky was born...

35. Pavlo Movchan (Unknow)

Ukrainian Writer

Pavlo Movchan ) is a Ukrainian poet and public figure head of the Prosvita Society. Pavlo Movchan is a former deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament elected first in May 1990....

36. Semyon Gudzenko (Unknow)

Ukrainian Writer

Semyon Gudzenko was a Soviet poet of the World War II generation. He is often compared with Pavel Kogan and Semen Kirsanov. He died from old war wounds as...

37. Markiyan Shashkevych (1811)

Ukrainian Writer

Markiyan Shashkevych was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church a poet a translator and the leader of the literary revival in Right Bank Ukraine. In 1832 they organized a...

38. Eliáš Galajda (1931)

Ukrainian Writer

Eliáš Galajda Ukrainian: Галайда Илля is Ukrainian writer with Slovak citizenship.