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Тема: Відомі українські митці.

Мета: розвивати навички читання, мовлення та письма. ознайомитися з біографією відомих людей України.

Завдання: прочитати та підготувати розповідь про одного з відомих людей України.

DISTINGUISHED MODERN WRITERS OF UKRAINE

Oles Honchar was born in 1918 in the village of Sukhe, Kobeliaky district, Poltava region. He is one of the most distinguished Ukrainian writers of the period after World War II, a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1978. His works have been appearing in print since 1938.

In 1938 he began to study at Kharkiv University. He took part in the second World War since its very beginning. He went to the front as a volunteer together with other students. Twice he was wounded and was decorated with many medals and orders.

In 1946 Oles Honchar graduated from Dnipropetrovsk University. From 1959 to 1971 he was at the head of the Writers' Union of Ukraine. Honchar gained recognition with the novel-trilogy "The Standard-Bearers" (1947), which is about the Red Army in the Second World War. His other works are "Tavria", "Tronka", "The Shore of Love" (1976), and "The Cathedral" (1968), which was rejected by the authorities and 1orbidden\ short-story collections and three collections of literary articles. His works have been translated into 40 languages.

Vasyl Symonenko was born on January 8, 1935, in Biivtsy, Lubny district, Poltava region, died on December 13, 1963, in Cherkassy. Poet, journalist and dissident, he graduated with honours from Kyiv University in 1957, worked for regional newspapers, began writing poetry while a student, but published little owing to the unfavourable conditions for free-thinking poetry. Only one collection of his poetry appears in print during his lifetime. It was "Silence and Thunder". His poetry was popular and was widely circulated in "samvydav", and largely marks the beginning of the Ukrainian opposition movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Thematically, his verse consists ol satire on the Soviet regime, description of the hard life of peasants ("Duma about Happiness") and opposition to Russian chauvinism. Of great importance is a series of poems in which the poet speaks of his love for Ukraine.

Vasyl Stus was torn on January 8, 1938, in Rakhnivka, Haisyn district, Vinnytsya region and died on September 4, 1985, in a Soviet concentration camp (Perm). He is a dissident poet. Stus was a student at the Pedagogical Institute in Donetsk and then started his graduation research at the Institute of Literature in 1964. In a year or so he was expelled from the Institute because of his protests against the secret arrests and closed trials. Somewhat later he was arrested and sentenced to five years of hard labour followed by three years of exile. Being in exile he joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and was arrested once again. This time it was ten years and five years of exile.

When a student he began writing poetry, and some of his poems were published in the journals "Dnipro" and "Zmina" in 1963-5. Almost 600 poems and translation were destroyed in 1976. Some of his poems were smuggled out to the West and published.