Yurii AndrukhovychW
Yurii Andrukhovych

Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.

Bohdan Ihor AntonychW
Bohdan Ihor Antonych

Bohdan Ihor Antonych was a 20th-century Ukrainian poet. In 1934 Antonych received third prize honours from the Ivan Franko Society of Writers and Journalists for his work Three Signet Rings.

Mykola BazhanW
Mykola Bazhan

Mykola Platonovych Bazhan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Merited Science Specialist of Ukrainian SSR (1966), Merited Art Specialist of Georgian SSR (1964), People's Poet of Uzbek SSR.

Ivan FrankoW
Ivan Franko

Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.

Alexander Galich (writer)W
Alexander Galich (writer)

Alexander Arkadievich Galich was a Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident.

Pavlo Hai-NyzhnykW
Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk

Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk was born on May 28, 1971 in Dunaivtsi of Western Podillya, Soviet Union and is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), Academician of the Academy of Political Sciences (Kyiv) and Ukrainian poet. Deputy Director, Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Leonid HlibovW
Leonid Hlibov

Leonid Ivanovych Hlibov was a Ukrainian poet, writer, teacher, and civic figure.

Vasyl HoloborodkoW
Vasyl Holoborodko

Vasyl Holoborodko is a Ukrainian poet, representative of the "Kyiv school of poetry". His poems are characterized by their magical, naive and Ukrainian fairy-tale-like style. Holoborodko's books were translated into English, Portuguese, Polish and German, spearate poems were also translated in French, Romanian, Croaian, Serbian, Spanish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish and Russian.

Yakub HolovatskyW
Yakub Holovatsky

Yakub, Yakov, Yakiv Holovatsky, also Yakov Golovatsky was a noted Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of Galician Russophiles. He was a member of the Ruthenian Triad, one of the most influential Ukrainian literary groups in the Austrian Empire.

Oles HoncharW
Oles Honchar

Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.

Myroslav IrchanW
Myroslav Irchan

Myroslav Irchan was born Andriy Babiuk on July 14, 1897 to a poor peasant family in the village of P'yadyky, Kolomyia in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. In 1914, he graduated from the Teacher's Seminary in Lviv. He was a Ukrainian storywriter and playwright who moved for a time from Europe to North America, and continued to write about his European experiences while in the new world. He was also editor of a number of publications in Europe and Canada.

Volodymyr IvasyukW
Volodymyr Ivasyuk

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.

Yuriy IzdrykW
Yuriy Izdryk

Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.

Igor KaczurowskyjW
Igor Kaczurowskyj

Igor Kaczurowskyj was a Ukrainian poet, translator, novelist and short story writer, literary scholar, university lecturer, journalist.

Isaac KaminerW
Isaac Kaminer

Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was a Jewish-Ukrainian Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician.

Klym PolishchukW
Klym Polishchuk

Klym Lavrynovych Polishchuk was a Ukrainian journalist, poet and writer.

Volodymyr KudryavtsevW
Volodymyr Kudryavtsev

Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Kudryavtsev in the village of Sinelnykove, in the Dnipropetrovsk region) was one of the most popular Ukrainian lyricists of the 1970s and 1980s.

Yurii LypaW
Yurii Lypa

Yurii Lypa – was a Ukrainian writer, poet, social and political leader, translator and medical practitioner.

Vasyl MakhnoW
Vasyl Makhno

Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Winter Letters and Other Poems, translated by Orest Popovych and, most recently, I want to be Jazz and Rock’n’Roll. He has also published two books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty (2011). Makhno has translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian. His poems and essays have been translated into 25 languages, and he is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry. Makhno currently lives in New York City.

Volodymyr MelnykovW
Volodymyr Melnykov

Volodymyr Melnykov is a Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter, composer and public figure, Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine.

Oleksandr OlesW
Oleksandr Oles

Oleksandr Ivanovych Oles (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.

Tomasz PaduraW
Tomasz Padura

Tymko (Tomasz) Padura also Padurra was a Ukrainian-Polish Romantic poet of the so-called Ukrainian school, musician-torbanist, and composer-songwriter.

Dmytro PavlychkoW
Dmytro Pavlychko

Dmytro Pavlychko is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure.

Ihor PavlyukW
Ihor Pavlyuk

Ihor Pavlyuk is a Ukrainian writer, translator and research worker.

Les PodervianskyiW
Les Podervianskyi

Les Podervianskyi is a Ukrainian painter, poet, playwright and performer. He is most famous for his absurd, highly satirical, and at times obscene short plays. Their average duration is five to fifteen minutes, with some exceptions. Podervianskyi has a cult following among Kyiv intellectuals.

Mykhaylo SemenkoW
Mykhaylo Semenko

Mykhaylo Vasyliovich Semenko was a Ukrainian poet, and a prominent representative of Ukrainian futurist poetry of the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.

Archduke Wilhelm of AustriaW
Archduke Wilhelm of Austria

Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, later Wilhelm Franz von Habsburg-Lothringen, also known as Vasyl Vyshyvani, was an Austrian archduke, a colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and a poet, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Serhiy ZhadanW
Serhiy Zhadan

Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.

Victor V. ZhenchenkoW
Victor V. Zhenchenko

Victor Zhenchenko Віктор Васильович Женченко is an Eastern European poet, translator and singer. Since 1965 he has worked in the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater.