Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

male, deceased (1861)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, also an artist and a humanist. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern...
Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka

female, deceased (1913)
Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka, was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the...

George S. N. Luckyj

male
George Stephen Nestor Luckyj (1919 - November 22, 2001) was a scholar of Ukrainian literature, who greatly contributed to the awareness of...
Vasyl Stus

Vasyl Stus

male, deceased (1985)
Vasyl Semenovych Stus (January 8 1938 - September 4 1985) was a Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident...
Viktor Petrov

Viktor Petrov

male
Viktor Petrov (1894-1969) was a prominent Ukrainian existentialist writer. He signed his works with pen names Viktor Domontovych and Viktor Ber....
Marusia Churai

Marusia Churai

female
Maria or Marusia Churai (1626-1689) was a semi-mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer. She has become a recurrent motif in Ukrainian...
Olha Kobylyanska

Olha Kobylyanska

female, deceased (1942)
Olha Kobylyanska (27 November 1863 - 1942) was a Ukrainian modernist writer. Together with Lesya Ukrainka she was the first to explore feminist...
Severyn Nalyvaiko

Severyn Nalyvaiko

male, deceased (1597)
Severyn Nalyvaiko (d. April 21, 1597) was a leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks who became a hero of Ukrainian folklore. The Decembrist poet Kondraty...