Vasyl Shevchuk

Vasyl Shevchuk (1932–1999) was born into a farming family in Barashi, Zhytomyr Province, Ukraine. After graduating in Philology from Kyiv State University, he worked as a script editor at the Dovzhenko Film Studios and then later for the newspaper Literaturna Ukraina. Fired from his job after he stepped up to defend a colleague, he subsequently had problems publishing his works for almost a decade in the 1970s for not conforming to the line of the Communist party. -- Glagoslav Publications