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Vasiliy GoloborodkoUkrainian poet
Date of Birth: 07.04.1945
Country:  Ukraine |
Content:
- Vasiyl Holoborodko: A Ukrainian Poet
- Military Service and Forced Silence
- Literary Success and Recognition
- Folklore and Academic Pursuits
- Later Years
Vasiyl Holoborodko: A Ukrainian Poet
Early Life and EducationVasyl Holoborodko was born on April 7, 1945, in the village of Andrianopol (now Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine). He completed high school in 1963 and later enrolled in the Ukrainian philology department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. However, he left after the first year and briefly studied at the Kyiv State Institute of Theatre Arts under director Viktor Denisenko.
In 1966, Holoborodko transferred to Donetsk State University. He was expelled in early 1967 for distributing Ivan Dziuba's work "Internationalism or Russification," which was considered nationalist and anti-Soviet at the time.
Military Service and Forced Silence
Holoborodko served in the military from 1968 to 1970 in construction units in the Far East. After his discharge, he worked in a mine and in agriculture in his native village. He eventually settled in Luhansk.
During this period, Holoborodko's works were banned from publication in Ukraine from 1969 to 1986. However, his collection of poems "Letyuche vikonce" was published in the United States in 1970.
Literary Success and Recognition
In 1988, Holoborodko's first collection of poems in Ukraine, "Zelen den," was published. He received the Vasyl Symonenko Literary Prize for this debut work. The same year, he was admitted to the Writers' Union of Ukraine.
Over the following years, Holoborodko published several other collections, including "Ikar na meтелиkovykh krylakh" (1990), "Kalyna ob Rizdvi" (1992), and "Slova u vyshyvanykh soroчках" (1999). He also participated in the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, Canada, in 1991.
In 1994, Holoborodko received the prestigious Taras Shevchenko National Prize for his collections "Ikar na metelykovykh krylakh" and "Kalyna ob Rizdvi." He was also awarded the Vasyl Symonenko Prize and the M.P. Trublaini Prize.
Folklore and Academic Pursuits
In addition to his poetry, Holoborodko has written extensively on Ukrainian folklore, including "Myfopetychna transformatsiya ukrainskoho obriadu svatannya v ukrainskykh narodnykh kazkakh" (2002). He completed his higher education in 2001 at Luhansk State Pedagogical University.
Later Years
In 2014, Holoborodko was forced to flee Luhansk due to the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. He lived with colleagues in Kyiv and performed with the folk ensemble "Lan." Holoborodko's works have been translated into multiple languages, including English, Polish, French, and German.
