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Vsevolod Nestayko
Ukrainian children's writer (1930–2014) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vsevolod Zinoviiovych Nestaiko or Nestayko (Ukrainian: Всеволод Зіновійович Нестайко; 30 January 1930[1] – 16 August 2014[2][3]) was a modern Ukrainian children's writer.[3] In Ukraine he is considered the country's best-known and best loved Ukrainian children’s literature writer.[4][3][1][2]
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During World War I Nestayko's parents were on opposite sides of the front.[3] His father was a Sich Rifleman of the Austro-Hungarian army, and later a member of the Ukrainian Galician Army; his mother was a teacher of Russian literature and nurse in the Russian Imperial Army.[3] In 1933 his father was killed by the NKVD.[3][4] To escape the Holodomor famine Nestayko and his mother moved to Kyiv where her sister lived.[3] After that time Nestayko lived and worked in Kyiv.[3]
In 1947[4] Nestayko entered the Faculty of Philology of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, from which he graduated in 1952.[3] He then worked in the magazine "Dnipro", "Periwinkle" and "Youth".[3] From 1956 to 1987 Nestayko was the editor in charge of children's literature magazine "Rainbow".[3] Nestayko's first book “Shurka & Shurko” was published in 1956.[4] From then till his death circa 30 of his stories, fairy tales, novels and plays were published.[4] His books have been translated into twenty languages throughout the world, including English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Slovak.[4] The adaptation of Nestayko's Toreadors from Vasyukivka won a Grand-prix at the International Festival in Munich in 1968 and the main prize in Sydney in 1969.[4] The Fraud ”F” adaptation was awarded at the All-Soviet Union Film Festival in Kyiv in 1984 and at the Gabrovo Film Festival in Bulgaria (1985).[4] Nestayko's works are included in school curricula in Ukraine.[3]
In 2010 Viktor Yushchenko awarded him an order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of fifth class.[5]
On 30 January 2015 Google celebrated his 85th birthday with a Google Doodle.[6]
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