Dmytro Pavlychko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasylovych and the family name is Pavlychko.

Dmytro Vasylyovych Pavlychko (Ukrainian: Дмитро Васильович Павличко; 28 September 1929 – 29 January 2023) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, and politician.

Dmytro Pavlychko
Дмитро Павличко
Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland
In office 1999–2002
President	Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by	Petro Sardachuk
Succeeded by	Oleksandr Nykonenko
Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia
In office 1995–1998
President	Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by	Petro Sardachuk
Succeeded by	Yuriy Rylach
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 12 May 1998 – 17 March 1999
Constituency	People's Movement of Ukraine, No. 33
Personal details
Born	(1929-09-28)28 September 1929 Stopchativ, Stanisławów Voivodeship, Poland (now Ukraine)
Died	29 January 2023(2023-01-29) (aged 93) Kyiv, Ukraine
Resting place	Stopchativ, Ukraine
Relatives	Solomiia Pavlychko (daughter)
Alma mater	Lviv University
Occupation	Poet translator scriptwriter culturologist political and public figure diplomat
Military service
Allegiance	Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Years of service	April–June 1945
Battles/wars	World War II Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Writing career
Genre	Poems

Biography

Dmytro Pavlychko was born on 28 September 1929 in a lumber worker family living in the village of Stopchativ near the Carpathian Mountains. Today this place is near the town of Yabluniv in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Between 1945 and 1946 he spent about 12 months in Soviet prison, after participating in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army at the age of 16. Later Andriy Malyshko teasingly called Pavlychko a "Banderovite broth cook".

In 1953 Pavlychko graduated from Lviv University (Department of Philology), worked in "Zhovten" (now, "Dzvin") Magazine. After coming later to Kyiv he worked in the office of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine and in 1971–1978 as an editor at "Vsesvit" ("Universe") Magazine.

In his poetry works of Soviet period, first of which ("Love and hatred") was published in 1953, Pavlychko presented himself as publicist and civil activist, though constrained by that time censorship and compromising with existing rules. For that literary work, he was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize in 1977.

Besides writing his own verses, he also translated the poems of Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare, José Martí, and Nikola Vaptsarov, among others.

Many of Pavlychko's poems were used for songs, most popular and famous of which is "Two Colours".

In the late 1980s Dmytro Pavlychko was one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine, participated in the renewal of the Prosvita Society, organizing and leading the 500th anniversary of the Zaporozhian Sich celebrations in 1990, and taking an active part in the elaboration of the Act on Independence of Ukraine which was approved on 24 August 1991. In the 1990s Pavlychko was the ambassador of Ukraine to Poland and Slovakia. Pavlychko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) from 1990 to 1999, as well as in 2005.

Pavlychko was an honorary Doctor of Science of Lviv and Warsaw Universities and professor of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

On October 24, 2019, the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine hosted an anniversary evening dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Dmytro Pavlychko, where the fifth and sixth (last) volumes of his memoirs Dmytro Pavlychko. Memoirs" by Yaroslaviv Val Publishing House.

Pavlychko died on 29 January 2023 in Kyiv at the age of 93, and was buried on 31 January in his native village Stopchativ.

Awards and honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1960)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1967)
• Shevchenko National Prize (1977)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1979)
• International Botev Prize (1986)
• Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (1997)
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (1999)
• Antonovych prize (2004)
• Hero of Ukraine (2004)
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class (2009)
• Order of Liberty (Ukraine) (2015)

Published works

• Lyubov i nenavist ("Love and hatred"), 1953.
• Moya zemlya ("My land"), 1953.
• Chorna nytka ("Black thread"), 1958.
• Pravda klyche ("Truth is calling"), 1958.
• Granoslov, 1968.
• Sonety podilskoy oseny ("Podillian autumn sonnets"), 1973.
• Taemnytsya tvogo oblychchia ("Mystery of your face"), 1974, 1979.
• Magistralyamy slova ("Through word's highways"), literary criticism, 1978.
• Nad glybynamy ("Upon the depths"), literary criticism, 1984.
• Spiral, 1984.
• Poemy i pritchi ("Poems and parables"), 1986.
• Bilya muzhniogo slova ("Next to the courageous word"), literary criticism, 1988.
• Pokayanni psalmy ("Repentance psalms"), 1994.
• World sonnets (translation), 1983.

His books

• Dmytro Vasylovych Pavlychko. (2004). Ukrainska Natsionalna Ideia : Statti, Vystupy, Interv'iu, Dokumenty, Vyd-vo Solomii Pavlychko Osnovy. ISBN 978-966-500-124-9.
• Dmytro Vasylovych Pavlychko. (2002). Naperstok : Poezii, Vyd-vo Solomii Pavlychko Osnovy. ISBN 978-966-500-227-7.
• Dmytro Vasylovych Pavlychko. (2002). Ukrainska Natsionalna Ideia, Vydavnychyi dim KM Akademiia. ISBN 978-966-518-172-9.
• Dmytro Vasylovych Pavlychko. (1988). Bilia Muzhnoho Svitla : Literaturno-Krytychni Statti, Spohady, Vystupy, Rad. pysmennyk. ISBN 978-5-333-00026-2.

External links

• Poems of Dmytro Pavlychko in the Library of Ukrainian Poetry (in Ukrainian)
• Poems of Dmytro Pavlychko (in English)
• Dmytro Pavlychko