Yevhen Swerstyuk

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Yevhen Swerstyuk

Jewhen Oleksandrowytsch Swerstjuk ( Ukrainian Євген Олександрович Сверстюк ; born December 13, 1928 in Sielec , Volyn Voivodeship , Poland ; † December 1, 2014 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian philosopher, writer, literary critic, translator, editor and Soviet dissident editor .

Life

Yevhen Swerstyuk was born in the then eastern Polish village of Sielec (today Silze in Horochiw Raion of the Ukrainian Volyn Oblast ). In 1947 he began studying at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philology, Lviv University . After graduating in 1952, he went to Odessa University in 1953 , where he completed his candidate degree in 1956 . He then worked until 1959 as a teacher of Ukrainian literature in the Ternopil Oblast and the Poltava Pedagogical Institute .

From 1959 he published articles and reviews in Soviet literary magazines. Because of his criticism of the Russification in Ukraine and injustices he discovered, he was blacklisted in 1965 and lost his job at the Pedagogical Institute. Since then his essays have appeared as samizdat and have been published in emigrant magazines. In December 1970 he gave the funeral oration of the murdered Ukrainian painter and dissident Alla Horska ( Алла Олександрівна Горська ). He was arrested in January 1972 and sentenced in March 1973 together with Ivan Switlychnyj for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" to seven years of hard labor in a labor camp in Perm Oblast and then five years of exile in the Buryat ASSR . He used the camp detention for political protests and also took part in hunger strikes. In April 1979 he became an honorary member of the international authors' association PEN. After he was free again, he moved to Kiev and worked as a carpenter. In the wake of perestroika , his articles also appeared in the Soviet press in the late 1980s. Editions of his works appeared in Ukraine and in 1976 in English translation in the United States.

In 1992 he was elected President of the Ukrainian PEN Club. For his collection of essays, Lost Sons of Ukraine , published in Kiev in 1993 , he received the 1995 Taras Shevchenko Prize, the State Prize of Ukraine. Swerstyuk was a member of the Ukrainian initiative group December 1st and since 1989 he has been the editor and editor-in-chief of the Christian Orthodox newspaper Our Faith . Swerstyuk died in Kiev at the age of 85 and was buried there on December 4, 2014 in the Baikowe cemetery .

Honors

Yevhen Swerstyuk received the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1995 and the Ukrainian Order of Freedom in 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Jewhen Swerstjuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on Jewhen Swerstjuk ; in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on October 21, 2016 (English)
  2. ^ The Initiative Group "December 1st " - About Us ; accessed on October 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Jewhen Swerstjuk, Light in the midst of darkness ; Article on the death of Yevhen Swerstyuk in the Ukrainian Pravda of December 2, 2014; accessed on October 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Dissident Swerstjuk is buried on Thursday in the Baikowe cemetery , espreso.tv from December 2, 2014; accessed on October 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Profile of Yevhen Swerstyuk on the official website of the award committee; accessed on October 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1075/2008 of November 25, 2008; accessed on October 21, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Swerstyuk, Jewhen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swerstyuk, Yevhen Oleksandrowytsch (full name); Сверстюк, Євген Олександрович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian philosopher, writer, literary critic, translator, editor and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Sielec , Volyn Voivodeship , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2014
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine