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Lina Kostenko was born on 19 March, 1930 in Rzhyshchiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), is a Ukrainian writer. Discover Lina Kostenko's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Born 19 March 1930
Birthday 19 March
Birthplace Rzhyshchiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Nationality Ukraine

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1930

Lina Vasylivna Kostenko (Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident.

A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine's foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry.

Kostenko has been granted numerous honours, including an honorary professorship at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, honorary doctorates of Lviv and Chernivtsi Universities, and the Shevchenko National Prize, and the Legion of Honour.

Lina Vasylivna Kostenko was born to a family of teachers in Rzhyshchiv.

1936

In 1936, her family moved from Rzhyshchiv to the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, where she finished her secondary education.

1937

From 1937 to 1941, she studied at the Kyiv school #100, located on Trukhaniv Island, where her family lived.

1943

The school, in addition to the rest of the village, were burned by Nazi forces in 1943.

The poem I Grew Up in Kyivan Venice is devoted to these events.

1950

Kostenko was one of the first and most important figures of the Sixtiers movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Her poetry is typically lyrical and sophisticated, but also relies heavily on aphorisms, colloquialisms, and satirical language, and is typically critical of authoritarianism.

Kostenko has been credited with reviving lyric poetry in the Ukrainian language, and has been called one of Ukraine's greatest female poets.

Ivan Koshelivets, Ukrainian émigré scholar, referred to her writing as "unprecedented" for its deviation from socialist realism.

1956

After graduating from high school, she studied at the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute, and later at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, from where she graduated with distinction in 1956.

1957

Following her graduation, she published three collections of poetry: Earthly Rays in 1957, Sails in 1958, and Journeys of the Heart in 1961.

The poems became immensely popular among Ukrainian readers.

However, the government of the Soviet Union forced her into silence as she was unwilling to submit to Soviet authorities who censored her poems.

1960

In the early 1960s, she took part in the literary evenings of the Kyiv Creative Youth Club.

1961

In 1961, she was criticised for "apoliticism."

1963

In 1963, The Star Integral poetry collection was removed from print, while another collection of poems, The Prince's Mountain, was removed from typography.

During these years, Kostenko's poems were published in Czechoslovak magazines and Polish newspapers.

However, they only occasionally reached Ukrainian audiences, mostly via samizdat.

1965

In 1965, Kostenko signed a letter of protest against arrests of the Ukrainian intelligentsia.

She was present at the trial of Mykhailo Osadchyi and Myroslava Zvarychevska in Lviv.

During the trial of the Horyn brothers, she threw them flowers.

Together with Ivan Drach, she appealed to the editorial office of the magazine "Zhovten" (now "Dzvin") and to the Lviv writers with a proposal to speak out in defence of the arrested.

The writers did not dare to protest, but filed a lawsuit with the request to admit Bohdan Horyn on bail as the youngest of arrested.

These efforts did not influence the trials, although they influenced the morale of Ukrainian dissidents at the time.

1966

In May 1966, in the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, where the "nationalist outlaws" were labelled, a part of the youth held the ovation of Kostenko, who defended her position and defended Ivan Svitlichny, Opanas Zalyvaha, Myhajlo Kosiv and Bohdan Horyn.

1967

In 1967 Omeljan Pritsak nominated Kostenko and Ivan Drach for the Nobel Prize in Literature along with the older Ukrainian poet and politician Pavlo Tychyna.

1968

In 1968, she wrote letters in defence of Viacheslav Chornovil in response to the defamation against him in the newspaper "Literary Ukraine."

After that, the name of Lina Kostenko was not mentioned in the Soviet press for many years.

She worked "in the drawer", knowing that her works were not going to be published.

1973

In 1973 Lina Kostenko was blacklisted by Secretary of the Central Committee on Ideology of the Communist Party of Ukraine Valentyn Malanchuk.

1977

Only in 1977, after the departure of Malanchuk, was her collection of poems On the Banks of the Eternal River published, and in 1979, under a special decree of the Presidium of the Socialist-Revolutionary Guard, one of her greatest works was published, a historical novel in the verses Marusia Churai (about a 17th-century Ukrainian folk singer) which had stagnated with recognition for 6 years.

1980

Kostenko also wrote collections of poems Originality (1980) and Garden of Unthawed Sculptures (1987), a collection of poems for children, titled The Lilac King (1987).

1987

She was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in 1987.

1989

It was her first novel, and her first book since her 1989 Selected Works.

1991

In 1991, Kostenko moved to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, saying that she wished to "gain strength," though she cautioned others against doing so.

2000

Following the death of her husband Vasyl Tsviurkunov in 2000, she went into a hiatus from writing.

2010

In 2010, Notes of a Ukrainian Madman was released.