Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk

Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk Григорій Тютюнник
Born	Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk 23 April 1920 Poltava Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Died	29 August 1961(1961-08-29) (aged 41) Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	poet, writer
Nationality	Ukrainian
Notable awards	Shevchenko Prize (1963)

Hryhoriy Mykhailovych Tiutiunnyk (Ukrainian: Григорій Михайлович Тютюнник; born 23 April 1920 in Shylivka, Poltava Governorate, Ukrainian SSR – died 29 August 1961 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian lyric poet, writer.

His brother was the writer Hryhir Tiutiunnyk.

Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk began publishing in 1937. In 1938 he graduated from Zinkovskaya Secondary School and entered Kharkiv University, but stopped studying because of the war.

Послей войны Григорий работал учителем в селе Каменка-Бугская на Львовщине. С 1956 года работал сотрудником журнала «Октябрь» во Львове.

The first story is "Miron Razbeigora" (published in 1950). In 1951 the first collection "Plowed Borders" of 10 short stories was published in Lviv. In 1952 the novel "A cloud will not obscure the sun" was published. In 1963 the novel-trilogy "Whirlpool" was published (in 1983 a feature film was made based on the novel). In 1963 Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk was posthumously awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize.

After the writer's death, the poetry collection "Crane Keys" and the novel "Bug is noisy" were published.

External links

• Hryhoriy Tiutiunyk in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
• Nakonechna, S. And their pines still make noise. Ukrayina Moloda. 20 September 2006