Wassyl Kutscher
Vasyl Stepanowytsch Kutscher ( Ukrainian Василь Степанович Кучер * July 7 . Jul / 20th July 1911 greg. In Werbiw , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 17th April 1967 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian writer.
Life
Wassyl Kutscher was born in the village of Werbiw ( Вербів ), today's Lyubymiwka ( Любимівка ) in Andrushivka district of the Ukrainian Oblast Zhytomyr . Between 1930 and 1934 he studied at the University of Kharkiv and published his first work in Kharkiv in 1931 . In 1934 he became a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine . He published several collections by the beginning of World War II and was then drafted into the Red Army to serve as a frontline correspondent in the war. After the war he lived in Kiev and published other novels.
Kutscher died at the age of 55 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .
Work (selection)
- Устим Кармалюк ( Ustym Karmaljuk ; 1940, new edition 1954)
- Чорноморці ( Black Sea ; 1948, revised 1952)
- Голод ( hunger ; 1961)
- Прощай, море (1957)
- Трудна любов (1960)
- Ми не спимо на трояндах ( We don't sleep on roses ; posthumously 1967)
Honors
Kutscher received the Order of the Red Star and the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union In Kiev, a monument was erected in his honor and in 1967 a street was named.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Wassyl Kutscher in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; Retrieved July 30, 2019 (Ukrainian).
- ↑ a b Entry on Wassyl Stepanowytsch Kutscher in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; Retrieved July 30, 2019 (Ukrainian).
- ↑ a b Wassyl Kutscher in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on July 30, 2019 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coachman, Wassyl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coachman, Wassyl Stepanowytsch (full name); Кучер, Василь Степанович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werbiw , Kyiv Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1967 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |