Bohdan-Ihor Antonych

Bohdan-Ihor Antonych was born on 5 October 1909 in Novytsia, in the Lemko region of the Carpathians, the only son of a Greek Catholic priest. A pupil at the gymnasium in Sanok, where Ukrainian had only two hours a week, he studied Polish philology at the University of Lviv from 1928 to 1933 and learned the Ukrainian literary language thoroughly there. He refused teaching in order to live by his pen, directed the review Dajboh for a time and translated Rilke. He died in Lviv on 6 July 1937, at the age of twenty-seven, of a pneumonia that followed an operation.

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• PoetryЗелена ЄвангеліяBohdan-Ihor Antonych · 1938Literature