Poet Vasyl Holoborodko

Ukrainian poet, representative of the "Kyiv school of poetry". His poems are characterized by their magical, naive and Ukrainian fairy-tale-like style. Holoborodko's books were translated into English, Portuguese, Polish and German, spearate poems were also translated in French, Romanian, Croaian, Serbian, Spanish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish and Russian.The first book of poetry called "Letyuche vikontse" (Flying Window) was prepared for a publication in 1963, but was not allowed to come out because of the author's refusal to collaborate with KGB. His works could not be published in Ukraine till 1986. Awards: 2014 - Panteleymon Kulish Literary Prize, 2012 - International Mykola Hohol Award "Triumph", 1994 - Shevchenko National Prize for books "Ikar na metelykovyh krylah" (1990) and "Kalyna ob Rizdvi" (1992), 1988 - Vasyl Symonenko prize for the poetry book "Zelen den" (Green Day). In July 2014 Oksana Zabuzhko proposed to nominate Vasyl Holoborodko for the Nobel prize in literature

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