- Birthday
- 1937-01-14
- Deathday
- 1995-07-04
- Place of Birth
- Staryi Zhyvotiv, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Novozhyvotiv, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine]
Yevhen Hutsalo
WritingBiography
A prominent Soviet Ukrainian writer since the 1960s. A graduate of the Nizhyn Pedagogical Institute (1959), he was first published in 1960 and is the author of over 25 novella and short-story collections, several of them for children. Considered in the 1960s one of the shistdesiatnyky — the postwar generation of writers and cultural activists who rejected Stalinist methods and ideology and pushed for cultural and political liberalization — he subsequently chose the safe life of an official writer over one of opposition to the regime. Hutsalo's works are noted for their detail, lyrical descript...
