Dmytro Vasylyovych Pavlychko (Ukrainian: Дмитро Васильович Павличко; 28 September 1929 – 29 January 2023)[1] was a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, and politician.
In 1953 Pavlychko graduated from Lviv University (Department of Philology), worked in "Zhovten" (now, "Dzvin") Magazine. After coming later to Kyiv he worked in the office of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine and in 1971–1978 as an editor at "Vsesvit" ("Universe") Magazine.
In his poetry works of Soviet period, first of which ("Love and hatred") was published in 1953, Pavlychko presented himself as publicist and civil activist, though constrained by that time censorship and compromising with existing rules. For that literary work, he was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize in 1977.
Many of Pavlychko's poems were used for songs,[4] most popular and famous of which is "Two Colours".
In the late 1980s Dmytro Pavlychko was one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine, participated in the renewal of the Prosvita Society, organizing and leading the 500th anniversary of the Zaporozhian Sich celebrations in 1990, and taking an active part in the elaboration of the Act on Independence of Ukraine which was approved on 24 August 1991. In the 1990s Pavlychko was the ambassador of Ukraine to Poland and Slovakia. Pavlychko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) from 1990 to 1999, as well as in 2005.
On October 24, 2019, the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine hosted an anniversary evening dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Dmytro Pavlychko, where the fifth and sixth (last) volumes of his memoirs Dmytro Pavlychko. Memoirs" by Yaroslaviv Val Publishing House.[5]
Pavlychko died on 29 January 2023 in Kyiv at the age of 93, and was buried on 31 January in his native village Stopchativ.[6]
