Roman Kudlyk
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Roman Mykhailovych Kudlyk (May 4, 1941 Jaroslaw
Jaroslaw
Jarosław is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 40,167 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship , previously in Przemyśl Voivodeship . It is the capital of Jarosław County.-History:...

, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

) is a Ukrainian poet and writing critic.

Early life and education

Kudlyk was born in a family of a serviceman. In 1945 he moved to Drohobych
Drohobych
Drohobych is a city located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret, a tributary of the former, in the Lviv Oblast , in western Ukraine...

. In 1958 he obtained his general education in Drohobych
Drohobych
Drohobych is a city located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret, a tributary of the former, in the Lviv Oblast , in western Ukraine...

. In 1959 he enrolled in Lviv University
Lviv University
The Lviv University or officially the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv is the oldest continuously operating university in Ukraine...

 and graduated in 1964.

Career

Kudlyk then obtained work as an electrician at the local oil refinery, newspaper and a magazine called October. He also worked also at the Lvivian TV-studio as the head of the literal department of the Lviv regional concert hall.

His writing was first published in 1957 by newspapers and magazines and then later in the collective volumes Apple bloom (Yablunevy tsvit, 1961) and Godspeed (Schaslyvoi dorohy, 1962).

He has been a member of the National Society of Writers (Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

) since 1965.

He is the author of the lyrics to Volodymyr Ivasiuk's songs, I am your wing («Я — твоє крило», 1972), «Нам спокій, друже, тільки сниться» (1978), «Освідчення». His writings have been put to music in the songs of Ihor Bilozir («Спогади літньої ночі», «Лебеді весни»), and Bohdan Yanivsky.

He wrote a liberto to several opera works of Bohdan Yanivsky, Oles Ballad «Олеська балада» (after the roman of Roman Ivanchuk Cherlene vyno «Черлене вино»), Princess Frog «Царівна Жаба», Golden chatter «Золотий гомін» (by Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet, interpreter, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.-Life:Born in Pisky in 1891, he was baptized on January 27 that mistakenly was considered his birth date until recently. His father, Hryhoriy Timofiyovych Tychyna, was a village deacon and...

), and musicals Fox Mykyta «Лис Микита», Ring of Temptation «Перстень спокуси».

He has received the Lviv regional award of Oleksandr Havryliuk and in 1997 the Literal award of Vasyl Mysyk for the series of poems Night time grape-picking.

At present he is the head of the magazine Dzvin and lives in Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

.

Publications

  • Conversation (Rozmova, 1963)
  • Springtime billyard (Vesniany bilyard, 1968)
  • Apple streetlamps (Yablunevi likhtari, 1979)
  • Leaves of a wild grape (Lystia dykoho vynohradu)(Horishnia brama, 1991)
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