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Also known as Vasyl Semenovych Stus

Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)

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Vasyl Stus (1938–1985) was a male author associated with the United Kingdom. His literary output includes works such as *Arrowsmith*, *Peredchutti͡a*, *Hangist tur indz*, *Ter...*, *I kraĭ mene pochui͡e*, and *Velyka zona*. Records indicate he has 35 works listed, with a separate count of five works noted in other sources.

Stus was born on January 6, 1938, and died on September 4, 1985. He is referenced by 335 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1938
Died
1985
Works
35

Top works

  • Arrowsmith
  • Peredchutti͡a
  • Hangist tur indz, Ter...
  • I kraĭ mene pochui͡e
  • Velyka zona

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1962-05-20

Discography

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Key facts

Born
( 1938-01-06 ) January 6, 1938, Rakhnivka , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died
September 4, 1985 (1985-09-04) (aged 47), Perm-36 , Kuchino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship
Soviet (until 1978), stateless (after 1978)
Alma mater
Donetsk National University
Occupation
poet
Known for
poems, human rights activism with participation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Movement
Sixtiers , Soviet dissidents
Spouse
Valentyna Popeliukh
Children
Dmytro
Awards
Shevchenko National Prize , Antonovych Prize

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 6, 1938 – September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vasyl Stus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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