Valery Shevchuk

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valery Shevchuk 2011

Valery Oleksandrovytsch Shevchuk ( Ukrainian Валерій Олександрович Шевчук ; born August 20, 1939 in Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian writer, translator and literary scholar.

Life

Valery Shevchuk published his first short story in 1961 and began his work as a literary critic in the same year with an article on Stepan Vasyltschenko . From 1958 to 1963 he studied at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev and worked for a short time as a correspondent for the newspaper Moloda hvardiia before taking up his military service at Murmansk . After serving as a conscript, he returned to Ukraine and worked as a writer. In 1967 he became a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine . His books were masterpieces of realistic, psychological prose on contemporary subjects. The official Soviet critics criticized him due to excessive "microanalysis", yet he was one of the talentiertesten young Ukrainian prose next Hryhir Tjutjunnyk , Yevhen Huzalo , Volodymyr Drosd ( Володимир Григорович Дрозд ) and Yuri Schtscherbak ( Юрій Миколайович Щербак recognized). In 1968 he turned away from realism and began, inspired by Nikolai Gogol and Oleksandr Iltschenko ( Олександр Єлисейович Ільченко ) to write on historical subjects.

With the repression against dissidents in the late 1960s and especially after the mass arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals from 1972 onwards, Valery Shevchuk's permission to publish his works was withdrawn. Unlike many writers of the Ukrainian 60s generation, he did not adhere to the guidelines of socialist realism , but remained silent until the end of the 1970s. As one of the few established writers, he did not break contact with the imprisoned dissidents, but instead visited them in the gulags in Siberia. He continued his literary activity in the late 1970s / early 1980s after the restrictions on literary publications eased. In 2007 he became an honorary professor at the Kiev Mohyla Academy .

Shevchuk is the author of over 600 scientific and journalistic articles on literary history and around 115 book publications. His works have been translated into 21 languages.

Honors

Valery Shevchuk received numerous honors. Including:

Works (selection)

  • Moonlight over the swallow's nest
  • Confessions of a monk or new Kiev Synaxarion, written by the sinful Klausner Semen from the Holy Pechersk Lavra

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Article on Shevchuk, Valerii in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto; English); accessed on September 16, 2016
  2. a b c d Short biography Valery Shevchu on the official website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee; accessed on September 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. List of honorary professors of the Academy on the official website of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy; accessed on September 17, 2016