Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi ( uk, Павло́ Архи́пович Загребе́льний) or Zagrebelnyi (russian: link=no, Павел Архипович Загребе́льный; 25 August 1924 – 3 February 2009) was a

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and

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novelist.

Biography

He graduated from secondary school in 1941. That same year, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he enlisted the

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, participated in the Battle of Kiev, and was severely wounded. After recovering, he was returned to service again and received another serious wound in August 1942. On that occasion, he was captured and was in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp until February 1945. Upon his release, he worked for the Soviet military mission in West Germany, then served as a journalist at a

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. In 1951, he began studying

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at Dnepropetrovsk State University. This was followed by several editorial positions; notably as deputy editor-in-chief for the journal '. He was the editor-in-chief of ''Literaturna Ukrayina'' from 1961 to 1963. It was during this time that he started writing novels. From 1973 to 1986, he held several positions at the

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, eventually becoming First Secretary, despite efforts by the poet Boris Oliynyk to deny him that position. He was awarded the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

in 1974 and the

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in 1980. He also received the

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award for his works on 25 August 2004. One of his best known novels is ''Roksolana'' (1980), about the life of Anastasia Lisovska, a Ruthenian girl from Galicia who became a wife of

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and played a prominent role in the sixteenth century

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. On 5 February 2009,

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paid his last respects to Zahrebelnyi. In December 2022 the

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street in

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was renamed to Pavlo Zahrebelnyi street. Zahrebelny's books have been translated into 23 languages.

Bibliography

Zahrebelny's works include novels and stories like: * "Thinking About Eternity" (1957) * "Europe-45" (1958) * "Heat" (1960) * "Europe West" (1961) * "A Day For a Future" (1964) * "Whisper" (1966) * "Kind Devil" (1967) * "Wonder" (1968) * "From the Point of Eternity" (1970) * "Let's Come to Love" (1971) * "First Bridge" (1972) * "Death in Kyiv" (1973) * "Lathered Grass" (1974) * "Eupraksia" (1975) * "Lion's Heart" (1978) * "Acceleration" (1978) * "Clarinets of Tenderness" (1978) * "Roksolana" (1980) * "I am Bohdan" (1983) * "Southern Comfort" (1984) * "Expulsion from Eden" (1985) * "The Sixth Day" (1985) * "Traceless Lucas" (1989) * "Naked Soul" (1992) * "Angel Flesh" (1993) * "Thousand-Year-Old Nikolai" (1994) * "Ashes of Dreams" (1995) * "The Long Dreams Valley" (1995) * "Heat Haze" (1995) * "Special Security Zone" (1999) * "Julia" (2000)

References

External links

Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers
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