Teren Massenko
Teren (Terence) Hermanowytsch Massenko ( Ukrainian Терень (Терентій) Германович Масенко * October 28 jul. / 10. November 1903 greg. In Hlodossy , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 6. August 1970 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet journalist , poet and translator .
Life
Teren Massenko was born in Hlodossy ( Глодоси ), a village in what is now Novoukrajinka district , the Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad, into a poor farming family. He went through all the stations of the newly established communist education system: He first studied at the RabFak for agriculture in Kamjanez-Podilskyj and later at the Kharkiv Institute for Popular Education. In 1930 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Artyom Communist University in Kharkiv.
After completing his studies, he worked as a journalist for various newspapers and, during the German-Soviet War, for the Shevchenko radio station . He also worked as a writer, essayist and author of children's books. His first book publication was in 1924 and the first collection of his poems was published in 1927. Many of his poems were set to music by composers such as Heorhij and Platon Majboroda . His poetry was about the heroic work as well as the everyday life of the Soviet people and the friendship between peoples in the USSR. He has also translated works by Janka Kupala and Abai Qunanbajuly, among others .
Massenko was a member of the All-Ukrainian Society of Proletarian Writers from 1927 to 1932, and from 1932 he was a member of the Ukrainian Writers' Union . As a member of the Writers' Union, he lived with his wife in the Rolit - House of Writers in Kiev. He died in Kiev at the age of 66 and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .
Web links
- Biography of Teren Massenko in "Український художній переклад та перекладачі 1920–30-х років" (Ukrainian literary translations and translators 1920-30s) page 281 ff. (Ukrainian)
- Biography Teren Massenko on ukrlitra.com.ua (Ukrainian)
- Biography Teren Massenko in ukrcenter (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Teren Massenko on vitchyzna.ukrlife ; accessed on March 21, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Biography Teren Massenko on pisni.org.ua ; accessed on March 21, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Profile Teren Masenko on prabook.com ; accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
- ^ The House of Writers in Ukraine, the 1930s: Conceived, Lived, Perceived, p. 16 ; accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Massenko, Teren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Massenko, Teren Hermanowytsch (full name); Massenko, Terentij Hermanowytsch; Масенко, Терень Германович (Ukrainian); Масенко, Терентій Германович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Soviet journalist, poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hlodossy , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1970 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |