Hryhorii Mykhailovych Kosynka ( uk, Григорій Михайлович Косинка, real name Hryhorii Strilets, uk, Григорій Стрілець, 29 November 1899 – 15 December 1934) was a Ukrainian writer and a representative of the
Executed Renaissance. He wrote in Ukrainian.
Hryhorii Strelets was born in 1899 in the
selo of Shcherbanivka, currently in
Obukhiv Raion
Obukhiv Raion () is a raion ( district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Obukhiv. Population: .
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven ...
of
Kyiv Oblast, in a peasant family.
He completed a two-year school, and moved to Kiev in 1914. There, taking various jobs to get subsistence, he graduated from a six-year school. Eventually, Strelets started writing short prose. He first used the pseudonym Hryhorii Kosynka in 1919.
During the
Russian Civil War, he first fought with the
Green Ataman and then with the army of the
Ukrainian People's Republic. Both were fighting against the
Bolsheviks, and Kosynka was even briefly jailed when the Bolsheviks won, but then released.
Between 1919 and 1922 Kosynka studied at the Institute of National Education. At the same time, he was writing for various newspapers and magazines in Kyiv, as well as speaking on radio and collaborating with the
film studio
A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company or motion picture company that has its own privately owned studio facility or facilities that are used to make films, which is handled by the production ...
. Kosynka was appointed the director of Kharkiv and Kiev radio committees. In 1924, he married Tamara Moroz.
Between 1922 and 1933, Kosynka published seven books of prose. He also made a number of translations from Russian. He was one of the founders of the writers association Lanka, which in 1926 was renamed to The Workshop of Revolutionary Literature.
4 November 1934 Kosynka was arrested and charged with counterrevolutionary activity. He was sentenced to death penalty and executed together with a group of Ukrainian writers which included
Dmytro Falkivskyi Dmytro ( uk, Дмитро́, Dmytró, ) is a Ukrainian name, derived from the Greek Demetrios. Nicknames of the name Dmytro include: Dima, Dimochka, Dimula, Dimusha, Dimusya, Metro (particularly in Canada), Mitya, Mitenka, Mityai, Mityaychik, Mit ...
. In 1957, he was posthumously rehabilitated.
Books
* ''Na Zolotykh Bogiv'' (На Золотих Богів, 1922)
* ''Za vorotmi'' (За воротьми, 1925)
* ''V zhytakh'' (В житах,1926)
* ''Polityka'' (Політика, 1927)
* ''Vybrani opovdannia'' (Вибрані оповідання, 1928)
* ''Tsyrkul'' (Циркуль, 1930)
* ''Sertse'' (Серце, 1933).
References
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1899 births
1934 deaths
Ukrainian male writers
20th-century Ukrainian writers
Executed Ukrainian people
Executed writers
Executed Renaissance
Ukrainian translators