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Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—a…
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culture · Ukrainian poet and dissident · journalist · poet · human rights defender · translator · writer · literary critic · teacher · dissident · opinion journalist · also Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Semenovych Stus, Stus
Born 6 January 1938 · Died 4 September 1985 · Q426509
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: The Soviets tried to silence Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus. A new exhibition honors his legacy
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Moviefone: Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus - Where to Watch
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2024· 1 entry
Times Higher Education: Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University
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2019· 1 entry
Kyiv Post: Ethics compromises, cliches haunt dissident Vasyl Stus biopic
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2009· 2 entries
62 out of 63 members of the university's academic council voted against renaming the university to Vasyl Stus or Volodomyr Degtyaryov (61 voted against this), 63 voted for not changing the name of the institute
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Representatives of the university's students voted in the same fashion
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1993· 1 entry
Stus was posthumously awarded the Taras Shevchenko State Prize for Literature
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1992· 1 entry
A documentary film about Stus was presented
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1990· 1 entry
1997 – Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise IV degree, presented by Ukrainian President Kuchma
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1985· 2 entries
Died 1985-09-04.
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An international committee of scholars, writers, and poets nominated Stus for the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, but he died before the nomination materialized
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1978· 1 entry
The poet publicly renounced Soviet citizenship, claiming that being a citizen of the USSR equalled to slavery
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1965· 2 entries
Stus married Valentyna Popeliukh; his son, Dmytro was born in 1966
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Submitted his first book Circulation (Круговерть) to a publisher, but it was rejected due to its discrepancy with Soviet ideology and artistic style
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1963· 1 entry
Entered a doctoral program at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv
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1961· 1 entry
Stus was first published in the Literaturna Ukraina literary magazine
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-01-06.
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1937· 1 entry
However, Stus's father, Semen, was given an offer to move to the Donbas, where there was a shortage of factory workers
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