Vasyl Symonenko
Ukrainian poet, journalist, and human rights activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andriiovych and the family name is Symonenko.
Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Василь Андрійович Симоненко; 8 January 1935 – 13 December 1963) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s. In the opinion of the Museum of the Dissident Movement in Kyiv, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.[1]
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Vasyl Symonenko | |
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Native name | Василь Симоненко |
Born | (1935-01-08)8 January 1935 Biivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) |
Died | 13 December 1963(1963-12-13) (aged 28) Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Occupation | poet, public activist |
Citizenship | Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Kyiv University (1957) |
Literary movement | Sixtiers |
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