Ihor Kalynets

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Myronovych and the family name is Kalynets.
Ihor Mironovych Kalynets, 2007

Ihor Myronovych Kalynets (

Soviet dissident
.

Background

Kalynets was born in

Lviv University in 1961. He began writing in the 1950s, and his first book of poetry was published in 1966. Because of censorship, the rest of his works were published in the West.[1]

Writing

One of the main themes of Kalynets's poetry is cultural glorification.

Stanislav Liudkevych among others. He refused to dedicate any poems to the Soviet leaders, breaking from the custom which was typical among poets in that time.[3]

Arrest

As a "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist", opposed to the policies of

labour camp and exile.[4]
His wife, Iryna, was arrested in January 1972. Kalynets refused to cooperate with the KGB and began behaving in a defiant manner.

In March 1971, the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine denounced Kalynets' poetry as "reprehensible", made worse by the fact that he allowed his work to be published in the West. He was then indicted on the grounds that he "issues a veiled appeal to struggle against the Soviet government", "calls for a revival of the Uniate Church", "covertly presents the idea that the Ukrainian people are oppressed by the Soviet government", and "articulates a nationalist ideology, as well as nostalgia for the past and for an independent state". On 11 August 1972, he was arrested, and on 15 November 1972, he was convicted for anti-Soviet activities by a closed court and sentenced to six years in labour camps and three years in exile.

labour camps, first at No. 35 at Vsechsvyatskaya, but he was then moved to No. 36 in the village of Kutchino, Perm Region. While in prison, he took part in the resistance movement. He was involved with hunger strikes, the writing of appeals and the writing of chronicles of the two camps. After being released from prison in 1981, he worked in the Lviv Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR library[6]

Personal life

He was married to poet and fellow dissident, the late Iryna Kalynets (died 31 July 2012, aged 72),[7] who also actively opposed the suppression of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and was a professor of Ukrainian language and literature at the Polytechnical Institute of Lviv. She was sentenced to six years at hard labor. [when?]

Honors

Collections of Poetry

  • Kupalo's Fire (1966)
  • Poetry from Ukraine (1970)
  • Summing up Silence (1971)
  • The Crowning of a Scarecrow (1972) translated into German in 1975
  • The Awakened Muse (1991)

References

  1. ISBN 0-8386-3497-4 [1]
  2. ^ Danylo Struk. The Summing up of Silence: The Poetry of Ihor Kalynets. Slavic Review, Vol. 38, No. 1. (Mar., 1979), pp. 17-29.
  3. ^ Tetiana Oleksandrivna Tsepkalo Lunar Imagery and Traditional Mythology in I. Kalynets' Poetry//Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. VIII, No. 3, 2016, pp 0975-2935.
  4. ISBN 90-247-1779-5
  5. ^ a b Kobets, Svitlana. "Fire of Kupala by Ihor Kalynets", Censorship: an International Encyclopedia. (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers) 2001 [3] [4]
  6. ^ a b "Kalynets Ihor Myronovych". Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
  7. ^ "Dissident Iryna Kalnets Dies After Long Illness". Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain. 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2012-08-02.

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