Vasyl′ Stefanyk

Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 14 May 1871
Died 7 Dec 1936

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Ukraine

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Stefanyk's Works

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Vasyl′ Stefanyk (1871–1936) was a major figure of Modernist-era Ukrainian literature. In a slim volume consisting of just fifty-eight short stories (some of them less than a page in length) written and published for the most part between 1897 and 1905, he developed a unique, instantly recognizable style that marked him as a forerunner of Expressionism, a technique that would become prominent in European literature and art some two decades later. Despite the size of Stefanyk’s published œuvre, which also includes several prose poems, sketches, and essays, its influence in the development of Ukrainian literature is hard to overestimate.

Stefanyk was born the second child of a prosperous peasant family in the village of Rusiv in the Pokuttia region of western Ukraine, near the border

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Citation: Chernetsky, Vitaly. "Vasyl′ Stefanyk". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 January 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13752, accessed 23 November 2024.]