Mykola Khvylovy

Mykola Khvylovy
BornMykola Hryhorovych Fitiliov
(1893-12-01)December 1, 1893
Trostyanets, Russian Empire
DiedMay 13, 1933(1933-05-13) (aged 39)
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Pen nameMykola Khvylovy, Yuliya Umanets, Stefan Karol, Dyadko Mykola
Occupationwriter, poet, Cheka officer
LanguageUkrainian
NationalityUkrainian
Period1921–1933
Genreshort story, pamphlet
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Mykola Khvylovy (Ukrainian: Микола Хвильовий, romanizedMykola Khvylovyi [mɪˈkɔlɐ xwɪlʲoˈwɪj], born Mykola Hryhorovych Fitiliov (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Фітільов); December 13 [O.S. December 1] 1893 – May 13, 1933) was a Soviet Ukrainian novelist, poet, publicist, and political activist, one of the founders of post-revolutionary Ukrainian prose one of the most famous representatives of the Ukrainian Renaissance in literature of the 1920s–1930s. Khvylovy was one of the main figures of Ukrainian 'National Communism' and the author of the slogan "Away from Moscow!"