Maria Halych

Maria Oleksandrivna Halych (; –22 January 1974) was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer of prose.

Early life and education Halych was born on in the selo of , Cherkassy uezd (present-day Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine) From 1926 to 1930, she taught the Ukrainian language and literature in a workers' school. From 1928 to 29, Halych worked as a technical secretary of the Kyiv Local Committee of Writers and in 1930 as a film fiction writer at the Kyiv Film Factory. In 1931, Halych married and moved to Kharkiv, where she taught Ukrainian at the Agricultural Institute. In the 1930s, she withdrew from literary work, although she tried to return to it later.

After World War II, Halych lived in Lviv, where she taught Ukrainian language and literature at foreign language courses at the Teacher Improvement Institute and preparatory courses, and circles of scientific workers at the Lviv Forestry and Zooveterinary Institute. Together with her husband, S. Postrygan, she compiled the Terminological Dictionary of a Forester (Lviv, 1980). thumb Members of the literary group Lanka, 1925. Left to right: Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Hryhoriy Kosynka, Maria Halych, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Valerian Pidmohylny, Todos Osmachka. After the rehabilitation of the members of “Lanka,” Halych takes an active part in the Lviv evenings of commemoration and writes memories about Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Hryhorii Kosynka, and Valerian Pidmohylny, which remained in manuscripts.

Maria Halych died in Lviv and was buried on field 68 of the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv.

Works Halych wrote Impressionist prose such as the collections Printer (1927), My Career (1930), short story Spring (1928), and memoirs. The works of Maria Halych describe the fate of women under new social conditions as well as human psychology in a critical, "borderline" situation.

The post-war works by Halych are marked by communist ideology: Kharitina (1956), Mothers and Children (1957), and Girl with a Gun (1954).