Roman Ivanychuk

Roman Ivanovych Ivanychuk (; 27 May 1929 — 17 September 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and politician. He was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize in 1985 and the title of Hero of Ukraine in 2009. He also served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Drohobych from 1990 to 1994, during which time he was a member of the anti-communist Democratic Bloc and the People's Movement of Ukraine.

Early life and literary career Roman Ivanovych Ivanychuk was born in the village of , which was then part of the Second Polish Republic. It is now in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. His family was opposed to the occupation of Galicia by Nazi Germany, and his brother joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Ivanychuk later said that he would have done the same if he had been old enough to fight.

Ivanychuk began studying the Ukrainian language at the University of Lviv in 1948. Upon entering the university, he was denounced by staff for refusing to join the Komsomol and wearing a vyshyvanka. He was eventually expelled from the university and conscripted into the Soviet Army, serving from 1950 to 1953.

Ivanychuk was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election from the city of Drohobych. He joined the Democratic Bloc, and he was additionally head of the subcommittee on Art, Creativity and the Revival of the Ukrainian Language within the Verkhovna Rada Cultural and Spiritual Committee.

Later life and death In 1995, Ivanychuk became a professor at the University of Lviv, teaching there until his death. Prut nese kryhu (, Prut Carries Ice), short-story collection (1958); Ne rubayte yaseniv (, Do not Cut Ash Trees), short-story collection (1961); Pid sklepinniamy khramu (, Under the Vault of the Temple), short-story collection (1962); Krai bytoho shliakhu (, The Edge of the Beaten Track), novel (1961); Topolyna zametil (, Poplar Blizzard), short-story collection (1965); Malvy (, Malvas), novel (1968); also published as Яничари; Dim na hori (, The House on the Mountain), short-story collection (1969); Syvi nochi (, Grey Nights), short-story collection (1975); Misto (, City), novel (1977); Cherlene vyno (, Dark Red Wine), novel (1977); Manuskrypt z vulyci Ruskoi (, Manuscript from the Ruska street), novel (1979); Na perevali (, On the Mountain Pass), short-story collection (1980); Voda z kameniu (, Water from Stone), novel (1982); Chetvertyi vymir (, Forth Dimension), novel (1984); Siome nebo (, Seventh Sky), novel (1985); Shramy na skali (, Scars on the Cliff), novel (1987); Zhuravlunyi kryk (, Crane's Cry), novel (1988); Bo viina viinoiu (, Because the War is being the War), novel (1989); Orda (, Horde), novel (1992); Vohnenni stovpy (, Fire Pillars), novel (2006); Khresna proshcha (, The Procession of the Cross), novel (2011); Torhovytsa (, Marketplace), novel (2012)