Mykola Vinhranovskiy

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Mykola Vinhranovskiy (Ukrainian: Вінграновський Микола Степанович) is a Ukrainian writer-Sixtier, director, actor, screentwriter and poet.

Biography[]

Mykola Vinhranovskiy was born on November 7, 1936 in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region.^[1]

He studied at the Actor Department of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.^[2]

Then he began to work at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.

Mykola Vinhranovskiy debuted as a poet with 2 poems in the magazine Dnipro (Part 2, 1957). In 1967, the second poetic collection "Hundred Poems" was published.^[3]

In 1982, he created the book "Kyiv" and later, in 1986, "Vybrane" (Ukrainian: Вибране) appeared.

Two years earlier Mykola Vinhranovskiy was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for works for children, in particular, the story "Syromanets", "Purvinka" and others.

Unlike many sixtiers, who since the late 80's of the last century were admired by politics and finding management positions, Vinhranovskiy stayed devoted to his creative works. He took the only leading position of the chairman at the Ukrainian department of Pen Club in 1989–1993.

Mykola Vinhranovskiy died on May 26, 2004 in Kyiv.^[4][5] He was buried in Kyiv on Baikove cemetery.

Awards[]

• Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1984) for collections for children;^[6]
• Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR;
• Laureate of the Literary Prize "Blahovist";
• Laureate of the Antonovych prize (USA).

Honours[]

One of the largest streets of Pervomaisk, where a poet was born, has his name. Also, there are several streets, named after his honor, in Kyiv and Mykolaiv, and there is a lane of Vinhranovskiy in Bila Tserkva.

School No. 17 of Pervomaisk has a Name of Mykola Vinhranovskiy.

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