Lina Kostenko

Poet, Author

1930 –

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Who is Lina Kostenko?

Lina Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet and writer, recipient of the Shevchenko Award.

Kostenko is a leading representative of Ukrainian poets of the sixties known as Shestydesiantnyky. This group started publishing during the 1950s and reached its apex during the early 1960s. It was during the 1950s in which Kostenko published her first poems in major Ukrainian periodicals.

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Born
Mar 19, 1930
Rzhyshchiv
Also known as
  • Ліна Костенко
  • Костенко Ліна Василівна
  • Костенко, Лина Васильевна
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Ukraine
  • Soviet Union
Profession
Education
  • Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
    ( - 1956)
  • National Pedagogical Dragomanov University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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