Oles Ulyanenko

Born on August 14, 1962 in Khorol ( Poltava region , Ukraine ). As a young man he wandered in Yakutia , served as a paratrooper in the Soviet army in the GSVG and Afghanistan ^[3] .

He stated that he had stolen the idea of ​​the script for the film "Zhmurki" ^{[3] [4]} .

About the work of Olesya Ulyanenko, the writer Yana Dubinyanskaya said this: “Not everyone is able to read Olesya Ulyanenko's prose. At least, I would categorically not advise people with vulnerable psyche, minors and pregnant women ” ^[4] .

According to Olesya Ulyanenko, the Russian Orthodox Church anathematized him for the book “The Sign of the Sabbath” ^[3] .

In 2009, the National Expert Commission on the Protection of Public Morality recognized Oles Ulyanenko’s book, "The Woman of His Dream" ("Woman of His Dreams") as pornographic ^[5] . The book was withdrawn from sale ^[5] . Ulyanenko sued the National Expert Commission on Morality . After nine months of the trial, the negative expert conclusion was withdrawn, and in 2010, the novel was revised by the Trent publishing house in Kharkov [1] .

According to critic Konstantin Rodik , “the main theme of A. Ulyanenko’s creativity is the study of human illusions: the origin, the ways of realization and the consequences of fulfilling desires; the role of the subconscious in this and the conflictology of illusions and desires ... Despite the gloom of his writing, A. Ulyanenko is a moralist writer in whose works evil always self-destructs ” ^[6] .

He lived in Kiev ^[3] .

In December 2009, the publishing house "Trent" published a new book by Olesya Ulyanenko - the crime melodrama "Where the South is", and in the spring of 2010, there is the second edition of the book "Woman of His Dreams."

He died on August 17, 2010 . He was buried in Kiev at the Baykovsky cemetery , plot number 33.

Dr. Mark Robert Stech: “For me, the first meeting with a letter from Olesya Ulyanenko, and this was a reading of Stalinka, which I consider to be one of his best works, caused a feeling of contact with an authentic and unique literary talent. True, a talent whose purpose is to embarrass and disturb, cause anxiety and pain, rather than bring pleasure. There is a lot of cruelty in his letter, but it’s not brutality for the sake of brutality, and not an attempt to shock the undemanding reader. Rather, the opposite. As for me, in essence, Ulyanenko is a moral writer of almost medieval, or rather, a baroque spirit. In this context, the choice of the Calvariya Publishing House always seemed to me to be good - to supplement the Stalinki text with fragments of paintings by Jerome Bosch, Peter Brueghel the Elder. Indeed, in Ulyanenko’s prose we find a similar, as if grotesquely twisted image of a person and society. Just like the disgusting faces of people in the paintings of Flemish masters, who instead of “realistically” depicting their appearance, look deep into sinful souls, so the exaggeratedly brutal, degenerated characters of Ulyanenko’s works are designed to serve as a warning to the reader about the consequences of mental degeneration.

The author sees and describes the person and society of Ukraine from a metaphysical, apocalyptic perspective, revealing the rarely seen that is hiding behind the facade of decency. Like Bosch and Bruegel, Ulyanenko sees and describes his characters not only weak in real life, but also cursed in eternity. In this sense, it seems even more successful to me than the paintings of the Flemings, the “Steel” would have been supplemented by the scenes of the Last Judgment from Ukrainian baroque icons. Indeed, among other things, Ulyanenko is organically Ukrainian prose writer. ”

- The newspaper "Voice of Ukraine", November 4, 2010:

An example of a literary study of the work of Oles Ulyanenko is the thesis of Nadezhda Tenditnaya “Aesthetics of death in the prose of E. Pashkovsky and O. Ulyanenko” ^[7] .

• State Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko (1997) - for the novel "Stalin" ^[1]
• Prizes of Suchachnist and Blagovest magazines.

• "Stalin"
• Dauphin of Satan
• "Winter story"
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• "Fiery eye"
• "Son of the shadow"
• “Sign of the Host of Hosts”
• "Seraphim"
• "Flowers of Sodom"
• "The woman of his dreams."

• “ Kuchma was more liberal than our beekeeper. Yushchenko is engaged in restoring coffins. Kuchma did not understand some things, and did not climb there. And this man doesn’t understand anything - a rural boy who “married” an American woman and pokes his nose where they don’t ask him ” ^[8] .

• Alexander Ulyanenko in translations into Russian in "Network Literature"