Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Bazhan | |
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Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |
Occupation | writer, poet, academician |
Language | Ukrainian |
Nationality | Soviet |
Mykola Platonovych Bazhan (Ukrainian: Микола Платонович Бажан; 9 October [O.S. 26 September] 1904 – 23 November 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Distinguished Figure in Science and Technology of Ukrainian SSR (1966), Distinguished Figure in Arts of Georgian SSR (1964), People's Poet of Uzbek SSR.
Career
Bazhan was a People's Deputy of the
Biography
Mykola Bazhan was born in city of
In 1923 Mykola Bazhan graduated from the Uman Cooperative College
During the 1930s Bazhan's works were viewed as "anti-proletarian" and became a subject of a number official anti-nationalist campaigns.[
During the
In 1970 Bazhan was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature, but he was forced by Soviet authorities to write a letter refusing his candidature.[5]
From 1957 and until his death, Bazhan was the founding chief
Bazhan in English
A collection of English translations of Bazhan's futurist poetry titled Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul was published by the Academic Studies Press in 2019. These include translations by
Awards and prizes
- Georgian SSR(1937)
- Order of Lenin (1939, 1954, 1960, 1964, 1974)
- Order of the Red Banner (1940s)
- Stalin Prize(1946, 1949)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1948, 1967)
- Ukrainian SSR(1965)
- State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1971)
- Hero of Socialist Labour(1974)
External links
References
- ^ a b "Мемориальная квартира-музей Н.П.Бажана в г.Киеве". Шукач. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ ""ВОНА – ЛЮБОВ, СПАСЕННА І ЄДИНА…" (роздуми над рядками неопублікованого вірша Миколи Бажана та його листами до дружини) - Національний музей літератури України".
- ISBN 9785457055421.
- ^ ""Пильніше й глибше вдуматися в себе..."". Голос України. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ISBN 978-0307363787.
- ^ ""Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul": Mykola (Nik) Bazhan's Early Experimental Poetry".
- This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the Russian Wikipedia.