Roman Ivanychuk

Roman Ivanychuk

Roman Ivanovych Ivanychuk (Ukrainian: Роман Іванович Iваничук, 27 May 1929 — 17 September 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and politician. He was the 1985 laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize. Between 1990 and 1994 he was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. In 2009, he received a title of Hero of Ukraine.

Ivanychuk was born in Trach, currently in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. He studied languages at University of Lviv and graduated in 1957. He worked as a school teacher between 1957 and 1963; he published short stories and novels since 1958. After 1963, Ivanychuk worked as an editor of Zhovten magazine until 1990. In 1995, he became a professor at University of Lviv and taught there until his death. He died in Lviv in 2016.

Bibliography

Ivanychuk wrote around 15 historical novels, and a number of short-story collections. Some of his books were translated into French and Russian.

• Прут несе кригу, short-story collection (1958);
• Не рубайте ясенів, short-story collection (1961);
• Під склепінням храму, short-story collection (1962);
• Край битого шляху, novel (1961);
• Тополина заметіль, short-story collection (1965);
• Мальви, novel (1968); also published as Яничари;
• Дім на горі, short-story collection (1969);
• Сиві ночі, short-story collection (1975);
• Місто, novel (1977);
• Черлене вино, novel (1977);
• Манускрипт з вулиці Руської, novel (1979);
• На перевалі, short-story collection (1980);
• Вода з каменю, novel (1982);
• Четвертий вимір, novel (1984);
• Сьоме небо, novel (1985);
• Шрами на скалі, novel (1987);
• Журавлиний крик, novel (1988);
• Бо війна війною, novel (1989);
• Орда, novel (1992);
• Вогненні стовпи, novel (2006);
• Хресна проща, novel (2011);
• Торговиця, novel (2012)

External links

• Roman Ivanychuk at Find a Grave