Borys Antonenko-Davydovych

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Борис Дмитрович Антоненко-Давидович
Transl. : Borys Dmytrovyč Antonenko-Davydovyč
Transcr. : Borys Dmytrowytsch Antonenko-Davydowytsch
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Борис Дмитриевич Антоненко-Давидович
Transl .: Boris Dmitrievič Antonenko-Davidovič
Transcr .: Boris Dmitrijewitsch Antonenko-Dawidowitsch
Borys Antonenko-Davydowytsch 1928

Borys Antonenko-Dmytrowytsch Dawydowytsch (born July 24 . Jul / 5. August  1899 greg. In Sassullja, Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , † 8. May 1984 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian writer , translator and linguist.

Life

Borys Antonenko-Dawydowytsch was born as Borys Dawydow ( Борис Давидов ) in the village of Sassullja, now part of the city of Romny , into the family of a railway worker. He attended grammar school in Ochtyrka and studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Kharkov and the historical-philological faculty of the University of Kiev .

Like the Ukrainian writers Yevhen Pluschnyk and Valerjan Pidmohylnyj , he was a member of the literary association "MARS" ( Workshop of Revolutionary Words ) based in Kiev. During the Great Purge , he was sentenced to death on falsified evidence. The sentence was later commuted to ten years in the gulag . In 1956 he was rehabilitated and in 1957 he returned to Kiev. His literary work had a significant impact on the 1960s literary generation in Ukraine. From the mid-1960s he was persecuted again for campaigning for the Ukrainian dissidents and against Russification. From the early 1970s until the end of the Soviet Union, his books were banned from being published in Ukraine. Antonenko-Dawydowytsch died in Kiev in 1984 and was buried there in the forest cemetery in Desna district.

In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the National Prize of Ukraine with the Taras Shevchenko Prize . Antonenko-Dawydowytsch wrote a number of prose books, some of which were also translated into Russian and German.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Borys Antonenko-Dawydowytsch on ukrlib.com; accessed on August 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b biography of Borys Antonenko-Dawydowytsch on lib.misto.kiev; accessed on August 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Article on Borys Antonenko-Dawydowytsch in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto) (English)
  4. ↑ Biography of Borys Antonenko-Dawydowytsch on ukrainianliterature.com; accessed on August 21, 2016 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Antonenko-Davydovych, Borys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Антоненко-Давидович, Борис Дмитрович (Ukrainian); Antonenko-Davydovych, Borys Dmytrowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Sassullja, Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1984
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic