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  She was awarded the Baltvilks International Prize in Children’s Literature and Book Art, for the book My Grandfather was a Cherry Tree in 2019.
  
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  Heinrich Böll

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  Mykola Kulish

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  Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

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  Maria Matios

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  Sofia Andrukhovych

  See also Софія Андрухович
  
  Sofia Andrukhovych (* 17 November 1982) in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer and translator. She is the daughter of another Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych.

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  Lina Kostenko

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  Kostenko was born in a family of teachers. In 1936, she moved from Rzhyshchiv to Kiev, where she finished her secondary education.
  
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  Max Kidruk

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  Lesia Ukrainka

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  Among her most well-know works are poems collections «On the wings of songs» (1893), «Thoughts and Dreams» (1899), «Echos» (1902), epic poem «Ancient fairy tale» (1893), «One word» (1903), plays «Princess» (1913), «Cassandra» (1903—1907), «In the Catacombs» (1905), «Forest song» (1911).
  
  Леся Українка (справжнє ім'я Лариса Петрівна Косач-Квітка 13 лютого 1871, — 19 липня 1913) - українська письменниця, перекладач, культурний діяч. Писала у найрізноманітніших жанрах: поезії, ліриці, епосі, драмі, проз

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  Ostap Vyshnya

  Справжнє ім'я Павло Михайлович Губенко.
  Український письменник, новеліст, класик сатиричної прози ХХ ст.
  Перший надрукований твір Остапа Вишні — «Демократичні реформи Денікіна (Фелейтон. Матеріалом для конституції бути не може).» — побачив світ за підписом «П. Грунський» у Кам'янці-Подільському в газеті «Народна воля» 2 листопада 1919.
  
  В цій же газеті було надруковано ще кілька фейлетонів молодого письменника, а з квітня 1921, коли він став працівником республіканської газети «Вісті ВУЦВК», розпочався період його активної творчості і систематичних виступів у пресі. Псевдонім Остап Вишня вперше з'явився 22 липня 1921 в «Селянській правді» під фейлетоном «Чудака, їй-богу!».
  
  Остап Вишня проводив і велику громадську роботу. Він брав участь у діяльн

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  Valerian Pidmohylny

  Writer and translator. He graduated from high school in Katerynoslav in 1918 and then continued his studies at Kyiv University. In 1921 he began working with various publishing houses and joined the editorial board of Zhyttia i revoliutsiia. The first of his short stories to be published were ‘Vania’ and ‘Haidamaky’ (Haidamakas), which appeared in 1919 in Sich, a journal in Katerynoslav. He also contributed to the almanac Vyr revoliutsiï (1921). He was a member of the literary organization Lanka. His published collections of stories include Tvory (Works, vol 1, 1920), V epidemichnomu baratsi (In the Quarantine Ward, 1922), Povstantsi i ynshi opovidannia (The Insurgents and Other Stories, 1923), Viis’kovyi litun (Army Pilot, 1924), and Probl

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  Ivan Bahrianyi

  See also Іван Багряний
  
  Poet, writer, and publicist Ivan Bahrianyi was lucky – twice he managed to leave the Soviet camps alive. Later, he was able to leave the USSR. In his homeland, his name was erased from memory for a long time. Only with the restoration of Ukraine’s independence Ivan Bahrianyi was able to return symbolically — he was rehabilitated in 1991, and his creative legacy finally began to be published and studied.
  
  Ivan Lozoviahin — Bahrianyi’s real surname — was born in Okhtyrka, the Slobozhanshchyna region.
  
  “I was still a little 10-year-old boy when the Bolsheviks invaded my consciousness with a bloody nightmare, acting as the executioners of my people, and it was 1920. He lived then with his grandfather in the village, at the api

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  Mykola Khvylovy

  Mykola Khvylovy (Ukrainian: Микола Хвильовий, Khvyl’ovyy) (December 13 [O.S. December 1] 1893 – May 13, 1933) was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance (1920–1930).
  
  Born as Mykola Fitilyov in Trostyanets, Kharkov Governorate to a Russian laborer father and Ukrainian schoolteacher mother, Khvylovy joined the Communist Party in 1919. In the same year he became the chief of local Cheka in Bohodukhiv povit. He moved to Kharkiv in 1921 and involved himself with writers connected to Vasyl Blakytny and the paper Visti VUTsVK (news from All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee). In 1921, he also published his first poetry collection.
  
  In 1922, he began to focus more on prose writing. His initial collections Syni

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  Jim Kwik

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  Jim was once known as the “boy with the broken brain.”
  
  A childhood head injury at age five left him struggling in school. For a while, he even believed he could never be as good as other kids when it came to learning.
  Jim loved superheroes as a kid – and comic books saved him when conventional education couldn’t. Comic books taught Jim how to read…and they also kept his dreams alive that one day he, too, would find his inner superpower.
  
  As the years wore on, fate led Jim to a mentor, a friend’s father, who sent him on a journey to learn about his brain and learn how to use it. Little did Jim know, it would take him down the long path of discovering different learning habits, including accelerated learning systems and tac

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  Ostap Vyshnya

  Справжнє ім'я Павло Михайлович Губенко.
  Український письменник, новеліст, класик сатиричної прози ХХ ст.
  Перший надрукований твір Остапа Вишні — «Демократичні реформи Денікіна (Фелейтон. Матеріалом для конституції бути не може).» — побачив світ за підписом «П. Грунський» у Кам'янці-Подільському в газеті «Народна воля» 2 листопада 1919.
  
  В цій же газеті було надруковано ще кілька фейлетонів молодого письменника, а з квітня 1921, коли він став працівником республіканської газети «Вісті ВУЦВК», розпочався період його активної творчості і систематичних виступів у пресі. Псевдонім Остап Вишня вперше з'явився 22 липня 1921 в «Селянській правді» під фейлетоном «Чудака, їй-богу!».
  
  Остап Вишня проводив і велику громадську роботу. Він брав участь у діяльн

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  Pavlo Zahrebelnyi

  Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi(Ukrainian: Павло Архипович Загребельний) or Zagrebelnyi (Russian: Павел Архипович Загребе́льный) was a well-known Ukrainian novelist. In 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Pavlo enlisted the Red Army as a volunteer. He participated in the Battle of Kiev and was severely wounded. He was the editor-in-chief of Literaturna Ukrayina (1961–1962). He was an author of short stories, novels about the war and also social and historical novels. He is a laureate of the State Award of Ukraine (1974) and the State Award of the USSR (1980). He has also been awarded the Hero of Ukraine award for his works on August 25, 2004.
  
  One of his best known novels is Roksolana (1980) about the life of Anastasia Lisovska, a Ruthen

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