Mykhaylo Osadchy
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Mykhaylo Osadchy | |
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| Born | March 22, 1936 Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR |
| Died | July 5, 1994 (aged 58) Lviv, Ukraine |
| Occupation | writer, poet |
| Language | Ukrainian |
Mykhaylo Osadchy (Ukrainian: Осадчий Михайло Григорович; March 22, 1936, in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and dissident.
Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from Lviv University in 1958.[1] He taught there from 1960 to 1965. He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966. He was tried together with Mykhailo, Horyn's brother Bohdan Horyn, and M. Zvarychevska.[1]
Osadchy was arrested for the second time January 1972.[2] That September he was sentenced to seven years of labour camp and three years of exile.[2]
He was able to return to teaching at Lviv University in 1990. In 1992, Osadchy became a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine.
Literary works
[edit]Osadchy's first book of poetry, 'The Moonlit Field' (Ukrainian: Місячне поле), was published in 1965 before his arrest. In 1971 his memoir 'Cataract' (Ukrainian: Більмо), was published. It was translated into French in 1974[3] and into English by Marco Carynnyk in 1976.[4] His second collection of poems was published in 1979 and was called 'Quos ego'. The third one, 'The Scythian Altar' (Ukrainian: Скифський вівтар), was published in 1990.
Bibliography
[edit]- M. Osadchy. Misyachne pole [Moonlit field].— Kamenyar, Lviv, 1965
- M. Osadchy. Bilmo: Avtobiohrafichny narys [Cataract. An autobiographical portrait] — Paris – Baltimore: Smoloskyp 1971
- M. Osadchy. Zustrich z vozhdem [Meeting with the leader] // Ukrainsky visnyk, 1987, №8.— pp. 18–25.
References
[edit]- ^ a b OSADCHY, Mykhailo Hryhorovych
- ^ a b Central Intelligence Agency. "QRPLUMB VOL. 2 (DEVELOPMENT AND PLANS, 1970-78)_0018" (PDF). Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF UKRAINE. Historical Dictionaries of Europe, no. 45 by Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, 992 pp., Scarecrow Press, 2013, ISBN 9780810878471
- ^ Cataract / Mykhaylo Osadchy ; translated from the Ukrainian, edited, and annotated by Marco Carynnyk
