Taras Yuryevich Melnichuk ( 1938 [1] - 1995 ) - Soviet poet dissident , victim of repressive psychiatry .
| Taras Yurievich Melnichuk | |
|---|---|
| Ukrainian Taras Yuryovich Melnichuk | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Utoropy village Stanislavian Voivodeship , Poland |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Kolomyia Ivano-Frankivsk region , Ukraine |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | poet |
| Genre | poem |
| Language of Works | Ukrainian language |
| Awards | |
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Biography
Born on August 20, 1938 (according to other sources, in 1939) in the village of Utoropy (now the Kosovo district , Ivano-Frankivsk region , Ukraine ). After the end of the decade, Taras Melnichuk worked as a proofreader for the regional newspaper Sovetskaya Gutsulshchyna, then in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a lumberjack, a miner in the Donbass , he served in the Soviet army.
In 1958 he entered the Chernivtsi State University . In the third year, he dropped out of school and left on a Komsomol ticket for the construction of the NKGOK , then for two years he worked as a carpenter at construction sites in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
1964 - he was restored at the university, from which a year and a half later he was expelled for freethinking.
He worked in the editorial offices of the regional newspapers Glubokoy , Khotin , Kosovo , Verkhovyna , Ivano-Frankivsk .
1967 - his first collection of poems, “Unsymo Love of the Planet,” was published at the Karpaty Publishing House.
1967 - entered the correspondence department of the Gorky Literary Institute .
I handed over the manuscript of the collection of poems “Chaga” to the publishing houses “Karpaty” and “Soviet writer”, which caused his arrest on January 24, 1972 . He served his sentence in Perm camps, from where he was released in March 1975 . He was under the supervision of the Soviet state security agencies.
1982 - The Smoloskip Publishing House in Toronto unbeknownst to the author published a collection of his poems “From Beyond the Bars”.
After returning from prison, Taras Melnichuk began to drink heavily [2] . Despite the warnings of his friends and their attempts to help, in the end he got a course of treatment at a special hospital in Dzhurov . In 1985 , after his escape from Dzhurov, Melnichuk was sent to a mental hospital in Podmikhailovtsy . He was released only on April 27, 1986 , immediately after the Chernobyl accident [2] .
Member of SPU (1990).
Last years he lived in Kolomyia . He died on March 29, 1995 . He was buried on the site of his former homestead in Utorop.
Every year on August 19, City Day in Kolomyia is awarded the Taras Melnichuk City Literary Prize.
Awards and Prizes
- State Prize of Ukraine named after T. G. Shevchenko (1992) - for the collection of poems "Prince of Dew"
Notes
- ↑ 70 skies of “Prince of Rosy” - Tarasovі Melnichuk - Radio “Freedom” , 08.21.2009
- ↑ 1 2 Ovsіnko V.V. About Taras Melnichuk // Interview: Grinkiv Dmitro Dmitrovich - Museum of the Disident Rukh, 02/08/2000
Links
- Taras Melnichuk - about the author, vibrani poezії.
- Збірка "Nesіmo love of the planet"
- Autograph of Taras Melnichuk - Ukrinform , Sickle 14, 2009.
- Oleksandr Pasichnyk. Trains Taras Melnichuk - Hutsul. - 1998. - Part 53. - S. 6-7.
- Nataliya Osipchuk. Prince of Rosy // Pass, far-sighted - Democratic Ukraine , 2008, No. 42. - About the Nimchich magazine and Taras Melnichuk.
- Nina Gnatyuk. Taras Melnichuk: “I haven’t lost anything in honor of honor” - Day, 08/20/1998
- Feshchuk Nataliya. Vidkrili memorial plaque Taras Melnichuk // Chernivtsi. - 2015 .-- 26 ber. No. 13. - S. 11.