Nadia Switlychna
| Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
|---|---|
| Надія Олексіївна Світлична | |
| Transl. : | Nadija Oleksijivna Svitlyčna |
| Transcr. : | Nadia Oleksiyivna Svitlychna |
Nadija Oleksijivna Switlychna (born November 8, 1936 in Polowynkyne , Luhansk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † August 8, 2006 in Irvington , New Jersey , USA ) was a Ukrainian writer and journalist as well as a human rights activist and Soviet dissident .
Life
Nadija Switlychna studied Ukrainian language and literature at the Philological Faculty of the University of Kharkiv between 1953 and 1958 and then worked for 4 years as a teacher and headmaster in Antrazyt . In 1963 she moved to Kiev and worked there as a journalist. In 1965, Switlychna became active in the Ukrainian right-wing movement, in which artists writhed against state-mandated socialist realism and the Russification of Ukraine. In 1972 she was arrested and spent four years in a labor camp in Mordovia for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” . After she was detained, she went back to Kiev, where the Soviet authorities continued to persecute her. In protest, she renounced her Soviet citizenship in December 1976. Shortly after the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki group , she unofficially joined this group in order to distribute " samizdat " (non-system-compliant literature distributed on unofficial channels). In November 1978 she emigrated to the USA and joined the external representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group together with Leonid Pljuschtsch and General Pjotr Grigorjewitsch Grigorenko (Ukrainian: Petro Hryhorenko ). There she continued her work for human and national rights in Ukraine and against Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act .
family
Her brother Ivan Switlychnyj was a literary critic, poet, translator and human rights activist of the Ukrainian resistance movement and thus also a dissident in the Soviet Union.
Honors
Nadija Switlychna received the following honors, among others:
- Wassyl Stus Prize
- 1994 Taras Shevchenko Prize , State Prize of Ukraine
- 2005 Order of the Order of Princess Olga 3rd class
- 2006 Order for Bravery, 1st class
Web links
- Biography Nadija Switlychna on olexa.org.ua (Ukrainian)
- Biography of Nadia Switlychna on the official website of the Committee of the National Prize of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko (Ukrainian)
- Article on Nadija Switlychna on fakty.ua from August 8, 2007; accessed on March 5, 2016 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ EDITORIAL Nadia Svitlychna 1936-2006 ; in "The Ukrainian Week" of August 27, 2006 accessed March 4, 2016
- ^ The human rights activist Nadia Svitlychna through the prism of Amnesty International ; in “The Ukrainian Week” of November 5, 2006. Retrieved on March 4, 2016
- ↑ Biography of Ivan Switlychnyj in the Virtual Museum - Dissidents of the Ukrainian National Movement ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed July 27, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 70/94 of March 2, 1994 , accessed March 4, 2016
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1653/2005 of November 26, 2005 , accessed March 4, 2016
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 937/2006 of November 8, 2006 , accessed March 4, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Switlychna, Nadija |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Світлична, Надія Олексіївна (Ukrainian); Switlychna, Nadija Oleksijivna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian author, journalist and Soviet dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Polowynkyne , Luhansk Oblast , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2006 |
| Place of death | Irvington , New Jersey , United States |