Klym Polishchuk

Svitlana Krys (MacEwan University)

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 25 Nov 1891
Died 3 Nov 1937

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Ukraine; Poland

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Other

Journalist

Resources

Polishchuk's Works

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Klym Polishchuk (1891–1937), a novelist, poet, essayist, translator, short story writer, journalist, artist, and collector of folklore, belongs to the generation of Ukrainian authors known as the Executed Renaissance on account of their fate during the Stalinist purges of Ukraine’s intellectuals in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Because his works were silenced during the Soviet period, Polishchuk is not widely known in Ukraine and is often confused with the writer Valer'ian Polishchuk (no relation), another victim of the purges.

Klym Polishchuk’s short stories, novellas, and poetry, which originally appeared in the 1910s–1920s, were reprinted only after the fall of the Soviet Union. A major publication of Polishchuk’s collected works that includes his short stories, essays,

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Citation: Krys, Svitlana. "Klym Polishchuk". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 July 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14607, accessed 16 October 2024.]