Leonid Pervomayskiy
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Leonid Solomonovych Pervomayskyi (Ukrainian: Леонід Соломонович Первомайський, birth name: Illya Shlyomovych Hurevych; 17 May 1908 – 9 December 1973), was a Jewish-Ukrainian poet, a winner of the 1946 Stalin Prize for literature and a member of the Communist party since 1954.
Pervomayskyi was born in Konstantinograd (now Krasnohrad, Kharkiv region of Ukraine) to the family of a bookbinder. He worked in a factory, then at a library and a newspaper. During 1941-1945, he was a military reporter. After the World War II, he published a novel in verse called "Brother's Youth" (Молодість брата, 1947) and numerous collections of poetry.
In 1946 he was awarded Stalin Prize of second degree for collections of poetry «День народження» ("The Birthday") and «Земля» ("The Land"). Later, he had been criticized by the Communist Party for the so-called "ideological errors".
Pervomaysky died on 9 December 1973. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.[1]
He was a recipient of a number of military and civil decorations.
References
[edit]- ^ Череватенко, Леонід. «В путь вийшов я, веселий і безстрашний» (Штрихи до портрета Л. Первомайського).
- Сайт письменника at Leonid Pervomajskij.net.
- Тексти Леоніда Первомайського та про нього
- К.: Головна редакція Української Радянської Енциклопедії (1981); Київ: За редакцією А. В. Кудрицкого; 736 с., іл.
- 1908 births
- 1973 deaths
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- 20th-century Ukrainian poets
- People from Krasnohrad
- People from Poltava Governorate
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Jewish Ukrainian poets
- Pseudonymous writers
- Socialist realism writers
- Soviet dramatists and playwrights
- Soviet literary critics
- Soviet male poets
- Soviet translators
- Ukrainian dramatists and playwrights
- Ukrainian literary critics
- Ukrainian male poets
- Ukrainian translators
- Burials at Baikove Cemetery