Dmytro Bilous
| Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
|---|---|
| Дмитро Григорович Білоус | |
| Transl. : | Dmytro Hryhorovyč Bilous |
| Transcr. : | Dmytro Hryhorowytsch Bilous |
| Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
| Дмитрий Григорьевич Белоус | |
| Transl .: | Dmitrij Grigor'evič Belous |
| Transcr .: | Dmitri Grigoryevich Belous |
Dmytro Hryhorowytsch Bilous (born April 24, 1920 in Kurmany , Ukrainian SSR , † October 13, 2004 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian writer , poet , literary critic and translator .
Life
Dmytro Bilous was born in 1920 as the tenth child of a peasant family in Kurmany ( Курмани ) in what is now Nedryhajliw Rajon in the Ukrainian Sumy Oblast . After graduating from high school, he went to Kharkiv in 1938 , where he first studied at the Labor Faculty and worked in an electricity company and then studied at the Philological Faculty of the University of Kharkiv , where Oles Honchar and Hryhoriy Tjutjunnyk were his fellow students.
During World War II he served as a volunteer in the Red Army between 1941 and 1945 . After sustaining a serious injury at the front, he was treated in a hospital in Krasnoyarsk in 1942 and then worked in Moscow as a radio editor for the partisans and the population in occupied Ukraine. He also published satirical works and studied at the Philological Faculty of Kiev University , which he graduated in 1945. He then completed postgraduate studies at the Department of Ukrainian Literature in 1948. Since 1948 he was a member of the CPSU . He was also a corresponding member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine . In 1958 he was on a business trip in Bulgaria.
He began his literary work as a humorist and satirist. Later he wrote poems for children, more than 20 collections of poetry and wrote literary-critical articles. He also translated literature from Russian, Belarusian, Lithuanian and Bulgarian into Ukrainian. In Kiev, some of his works have been translated into Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian and other languages.
Bilous died at the age of 84 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .
Honors
Dmytro Bilous received numerous orders and honors. Including:
- 1966 Bulgarian Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius 1st degree
- In 1976 he was awarded the M. Rylsky Prize
- 1990 Taras Shevchenko Prize for his book Der Wermut
- 2001 Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
Web links
- Dmytro Bilous - biography on ukrclassic.com.ua (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Entry on Dmytro Bilous in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on December 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c Entry on Dmytro Bilous in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on December 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Bilous, Dmytro Hryhorowytsch Biography in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on December 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Dmytro Bilous in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on December 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bilous, Dmytro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bilous, Dmytro Hryhorowytsch (full name); Білоус, Дмитро Григорович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer, poet, literary critic and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kurmany , Ukrainian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2004 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukraine |