Mykola Chwylowyj
Mykola Chwylowyj ( Ukrainian Микола Хвильовий ; * December 2, July / December 14, 1893 greg. In Trostjanez , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † May 13, 1933 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian writer and publicist of the Ukrainian cultural renaissance 1920s.
Life
Mykola Chwylowyj was born as Mykola Hryhorowytsch Fitilow ( Микола Григорович Фітільов ) in Trostyanets, a small town in today's Ukrainian Sumy Oblast . He attended high school in Bohoduchiw from 1916, in 1919 he joined the Communist Party of Ukraine ( Bolsheviks ) and in 1921 he moved to Kharkiv, where he published his first collection of poems. There he also co-founded and headed the literary group "WAPLITE". His pamphlets provoked the well-known “literary discussion” in Ukraine from 1925 to 1928. Between December 1927 and March 1928 he lived in Berlin and Vienna, and according to some sources also in Paris. In 1928 he founded the magazine Literaturnyj Jarmarok in Kharkiv . In 1933 he committed suicide in Kharkiv.
Web links
- Article on Mykola Chwylowyj in litakcent.com; accessed on September 3, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- Biography and work of Mykola Chwylowyj in the Ukrainian Center ; accessed on September 3, 2016 (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Khvylovy, Mykola in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto; English); accessed on September 3, 2016
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| SURNAME | Chwylowyj, Mykola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Хвильовий, Микола (Ukrainian); Fitilow, Mykola Hryhorowytsch (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trostyanets , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1933 |
| Place of death | Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR |