Oleksandr Stanislavovych Ulianenko ( uk, Оле́сь Улья́ненко, ; August 14 (officially May 8), 1962 – August 17, 2010) was a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

writer known by the pen name Oles Ulianenko. He was the youngest winner of the Shevchenko National Prize, which he received in 1997, at the age of 35, for his novel ''Stalinka'' (1994). He also won awards from the magazines ''Suchasnist'' and ''Blahovist''.

Personal life

Ulianenko graduated from

Mykolaiv Nautical School Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Southern Ukraine, the Administrative centre, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides U ...

and served in the

Soviet Air Forces The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

in Germany and Afghanistan. While living in Leningrad, he became acquainted with local rock music, learned to play the guitar and tried to form a band. He was married for seven years before getting divorced.

Career

At various points, Ulianenko's work was censored by the Ukrainian government for its explicit content. In 2009, for example, Ukraine's National Television and Broadcasting Council, on the recommendation of the National Expert Commission of Ukraine on the Protection of Public Morality, blocked the publication of his novel ''Жінка його мрії'' ("The Woman of His Dreams"). Ulianenko's last work published during his lifetime was a criminal melodrama called ''Там, де Південь'' ("Where the South Is"), released in December 1999. In 2000, he wrote the screenplay for the film ''Украдене Щастя'' ("Stolen Happiness") with the director Andrii Donchyk, based on a play of the same name by Ivan Franko. The fourth part of the film was released in 2004. The book ''Oles Ulianenko: Without Censorship'' was released on August 15, 2010, to mark Ulianenko's 48th birthday. It includes approximately 40 interviews with him conducted by multiple publications and television channels from 1994–2010. It also includes a detailed description and documents from Ulianenko's lawsuit against the National Expert Commission of Ukraine on the Protection of Public Morality, prepared by his lawyer, Oleh Veremiienko. Ulianenko died on August 17, 2010, in his apartment in Kyiv under unclear circumstances. He was buried in Kyiv Baikove Cemetery (Section 33). In April 2013, a revised edition of ''The Woman of His Dreams'' was published.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Stalinka'' (1994) *''Winter's Tale'' (1995) *''Fire Eye'' (1997) *''Bohemian Rhapsody'' (1999) *''Son of the Shadow'' (2001) *''Dauphin of Satan'' (2003) *''Sign of Savoofa'' (2003) *''Flowers of Sodom'' (2005) *''Serafima'' (2007) *''The Woman of His Dreams'' (2010) *''Prorok'' (2013)

Short stories

*"Siedoi" (2003) *"Where the South Is" (2010)

Trilogies

*''Angels of Revenge'' (2012)

References

External links

2009 Human Rights Reports: Ukraine
- U.S. Department of State {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulianenko, Oles 1962 births 2010 deaths People from Khorol Writers from Kyiv Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize Ukrainian novelists 20th-century novelists