Цензор.НЕТ: "Childishness and resentment": Kostenko comments on Fedorov’s proposal to hold elections during war
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Lina Kostenko
Lina Vasylivna Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine's foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry.
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culture · Ukrainian poet and writer (born 1930) · poet · writer · children's writer · prose writer · also Lina Kostenko, Lina Vasylivna Kostenko, Kostenko
Born 19 March 1930 · Q274302
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2026· 2 entries
Межа. Новини України.: Yurii Kostenko Will Recall Ukraine’s Independence Vote in New Interview
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2025· 1 entry
Mena FN: Lina Kostenko Completes New Historical Novel - Media
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Kyiv presented by Vitali Klitschko (2024).
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WESER-KURIER: Lesung im Haus am Markt Bruchhausen-Vilsen: Ukrainische Dichterin Lina Kostenko im Fokus
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2022· 2 entries
Mena FN: Lina Kostenko Awarded French Legion Of Honor Order
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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2012· 1 entry
“Three hundred poems. Selected poems”
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2010· 2 entries
Notes of a Ukrainian Madman was released
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“Notes of the Ukrainian self-made man”
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2005· 1 entry
An attempt was made by then-President Viktor Yushchenko to decorate Kostenko as a Hero of Ukraine, the highest reward of the state
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (2000).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Honored badge of merit of the President of Ukraine (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Kostenko moved to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, saying that she wished to "gain strength," though she cautioned others against doing so
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Antonovych prize (1989).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Shevchenko National Prize (1987).
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“Garden of non-melting sculptures”
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1977· 2 entries
“On the banks of the eternal river”
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After the departure of Malanchuk, was her collection of poems On the Banks of the Eternal River published, and in 1979, under a special decree of the Presidium of the Socialist-Revolutionary Guard, one of her greatest wo
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1973· 1 entry
Lina Kostenko was blacklisted by Secretary of the Central Committee on Ideology of the Communist Party of Ukraine Valentyn Malanchuk
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1968· 1 entry
Wrote letters in defence of Viacheslav Chornovil in response to the defamation against him in the newspaper "Literary Ukraine
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1967· 1 entry
Omeljan Pritsak nominated Kostenko and Ivan Drach for the Nobel Prize in Literature along with the older Ukrainian poet and politician Pavlo Tychyna
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1965· 1 entry
Kostenko signed a letter of protest against arrests of the Ukrainian intelligentsia
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1963· 1 entry
The Star Integral poetry collection was removed from print, while another collection of poems, The Prince's Mountain, was removed from typography
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1957· 1 entry
Sails in 1958, and Journeys of the Heart in 1961
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (1956).
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (1950).
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1936· 1 entry
Her family moved from Rzhyshchiv to the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, where she finished her secondary education
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-03-19.
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