Ulas Samtschuk

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Poster with Ulas Samtschuk - People of Truth. They were those who told the truth about the Holodomor .
Portrait of Ulas Samtschuk on a 2– ₴ commemorative coin
Ukrainian postage stamp from 2005 depicting Ulas Zamtschuk

Ulas Oleksijowytsch Samtschuk ( Ukrainian Улас Олексійович Самчук ; born March 7 . Jul / 20th March  1905 greg. In Derman , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 9. July 1987 in Toronto , Canada ) was a Ukrainian writer , journalist and essayist.

Life

Samtschuk was born in the village of Derman in what is now Sdolbuniv Rajon in the Ukrainian Rivne Oblast and attended grammar school in Kremenets . After Volhynia came under Polish rule as a result of the First World War , Samtschuk felt increasingly discriminated against and decided in July 1924 to cross the border illegally into the newly founded Soviet Ukraine , but was caught and jailed for illegally crossing the border. After serving his sentence, he continued his school attendance at the grammar school. In 1926 he began his literary career with the publication of short stories. Due to his higher age in prison, he was drafted into the Polish army to serve in the city of Tarnów before he could finish school.

In 1927 he deserted, fled to Germany and studied first at the University of Breslau and, after moving to Czechoslovakia in 1929 , at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague until 1931 . In Prague he married Marjia Zots and took part in the cultural life of the Ukrainian exile community, including Oleksandr Oles and his son Oleh Olschytsch , Dmytro Doroshenko , Stepan Smal-Stozkyj and Jewhen Konowalez .

His novel Marjia , published in 1934, was thematically based on the Holodomor . The first volume of his trilogy Wolyn was also published in 1934 . For this he received a literary prize and a nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature .

In 1938 Samtschuk went to Carpathian Ukraine , where he spoke out for independence. Because of this, he was arrested and detained, but escaped and returned to Prague. Between 1941 and 1943 he was in Rivne editor of the newspaper Volyn . In his second marriage, he married the film actress Tetiana (Tania) Fedorivna Prakhova († April 1990) after he lost contact with his first wife in the chaos of war. In 1944 he fled to Germany, where he headed the literary-artistic organization MUR between 1945 and 1948 . In 1948 Samtschuk emigrated to Canada, where he was the head of the Canadian subsidiary of the Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile for many years . The time in Canada was one of the most fruitful of his life and the Ukrainian diaspora published his works regularly. During the last years of his life, Samtschuk suffered from arthritis and was dependent on a wheelchair. He died in Toronto and was buried in Oakville, south of Toronto.

Works

  • Волинь, 1932–1937 ( Wolyn )
  • Кулак, 1932 ( Kulak )
  • Гори говорять, 1934 ( Hory howorjat )
  • Марія, 1934 ( Marija )
  • Юність Василя Шеремети, 1946–1947 ( Junist Wassilja Scheremety )
  • Морозів хутір, 1948 ( Moroziv chutir )
  • Темнота, 1957 ( Temnota )
  • Втеча від себе ( Wtetscha wid sebe )
  • Нарід чи чернь? ( Narid Tschy Tschern )
  • П'ять по дванадцятій, 1954 ( Pjat po dwanadzjatij )
  • На білому коні, 1956 ( Na bilomu koni )
  • На коні вороному ( Na koni woronomu )
  • Чого не гоїть огонь, 1959 ( Tschoho ne hojit ohon )
  • Куди тече та річка? ( Kudy tetsche ta ritschka )
  • На твердій землі, 1967 ( Na twerdij semli )
  • Планета Ді-Пі ( Planeta Di-Pi )

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Honors

The Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin with his portrait on his 100th birthday in 2005, and the Ukrainian Post issued a stamp in his memory. In the same year a memorial in his honor was erected in front of the Rivne Drama Theater for the anniversary. Another monument is located in Sdolbuniv near his birthplace. Furthermore, there are several museums in Ukraine that are dedicated to him and his work and several streets and the school he attended in Kremenets are named after him.

Web links

Commons : Ulas Samtschuk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Biography Ulas Samtschuk in languagelanterns , accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ Biography Ulas Samtschuk on ukrlib.com, accessed on August 24, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Article on Samchuk, Ulas in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ Biography and works of Ulas Samtschuk on UkrLit , accessed on August 24, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on August 24, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Velvetchuk, Ulas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Самчук, Улас Олексійович (Ukrainian); Samtschuk, Ulas Oleksijowytsch (full name); Samchuk, Ulas (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, journalist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Derman , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1987
Place of death Toronto , Canada