Lina Kostenko

Lina Kostenko was born on 19 March 1930 in Rzhyshchiv, near Kyiv, the daughter of schoolteachers; her father, prosecuted as an enemy of the people, was sentenced to ten years. A graduate of the Literary Institute in Moscow in 1956, she was one of the voices of the sixties generation. She published no book from 1961 to 1977; in 1965 and 1966 she signed a letter against the arrest of Ukrainian intellectuals and publicly defended them. She has refused the title of Hero of Ukraine and lives in Kyiv.

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• NovelMarusia ChuraiМаруся ЧурайLina Kostenko · 1979Literature