Ivan Fedorovich Kushtenko ( Ukrainian: Ivan Fedorovich Kushtenko ; October 14, 1929 , v . Chernogorodka (now Makarovsky District, Kiev Region of Ukraine ) - November 5, 2017 , Kiev ) - Ukrainian and Soviet writer , journalist , editor . Member of the Union of Writers of Ukraine (since 1971).
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| Date of Birth | October 14, 1929 |
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| Date of death | November 5, 2017 (88 years old) |
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Biography
The son of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War who did not return from the front. In 1946, he began working in Kiev at the Lenin Forge factory . Without graduating from seven classes of a rural school, he entered the Kiev Jung school. He served in the Caspian flotilla of the Navy of the USSR . After completing the service, he returned to Kiev, worked as a teacher in a dormitory for working youth. He independently mastered the course of high school.
In 1959 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Kiev University. T. G. Shevchenko .
Since then - in journalistic and editorial work. He had experience in the regional newspaper “Voice of the Kolosposnik” in the Chernihiv region. Later, an editorial staff member, head of the literary department of the journal “Kolospospnik Ukrainy” (renamed “Khliborob Ukrainy”). He was an assistant filmmaker. He was later invited to a permanent job at the publishing house.
In 1965-1975, he was the senior editor of the prose department of the Molod Publishing House, and from 1975-1989, he was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Tvarinitsvo Ukrainy magazine.
He was involved in the creation of the journal "Budmo Zdorovі" He worked in the editorial office of the popular science magazine "Dim, Garden, City", which he later edited.
Creativity
He began to write while still serving in the navy. The main subjects of his works are the heroic defense of Sevastopol , the everyday life of sailors in the post-war period, the fate of women and mothers during the Great Patriotic War, and post-war childhood.
The author of short stories and short stories.
Selected Works
- Zagrava. 1964;
- "Writing for mother." 1970;
- "Fairway". 1973;
- "Susidi". 1984;
- The Bent Mis. 1985;
- "Battery". 1991;
- "Whose charity is our Ukrainian mother ... a woman?". (The rozdumi of the boisterous Ukrainian about deschos our recent snowy day). 2010.
Literature
- Medunitsya M. Poklikannya talent // LU. 1971, April 27;
- Okolitenko N. Plots with heroes and without ...: (about the scribe Ivan Kushtenka) // Віччина. - 1989. - No. 11. - S. 180-186.
Links
- About fellow countryman, writer Ivan Fedorovich Kushtenka (Ukrainian)
- In memory of Ivan Fedorovich Kushtenka (Ukrainian)