A memorial plaque to prominent Ukrainian writer Hryhoriy Tyutyunnyk has been erected in Kyiv

The memorial plaque was made by the People's Artist of Ukraine Mykola Bilyk.

June 24 in Kyiv on the facade of the house № 28 A memorial plaque in honor of Hryhor Tyutyunnyk (1931-1980), a prominent Ukrainian writer, teacher, and laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, was unveiled on Mykola Raevsky Street (Druzhby Narodiv metro station), according to theater critic Oleh Verhelis.

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On the night of March 5-6, 1980, a prominent Ukrainian writer committed suicide in Kiev. G. Tyutyunnyk lived with his family in the modest apartment of this typical residential building on Raevskoho Street in 1967-1980, and his earthly life ended here.

A memorial plaque made by the People's Artist of Ukraine Mykola Bilyk on the initiative of the National Union writers of Ukraine, the public and volunteers-admirers of the writer's work, as well as patron V. Skotsyk, who for many years took care of the organization of the All-Ukrainian literary competition named after Hryhor Tyutyunnyk.

Hryhir Mykhailovych Tyutyunnyk – a representative of writers, the generation of the sixties, a prose writer, translator, teacher. Brother of the writer Hryhoriy Tyutyunnyk, author of the famous Ukrainian novel “Vyr”. Hryhir Tyutyunnyk – winner of the Lesia Ukrainka Prize (1979) for the works “Klimko” and “Fire Far in the Steppe”, winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (1989, posthumously) for works in two volumes.

Based on materials: ZN.ua

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