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Ostap Vyshnia | |
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| Native name | Остап Вишня |
| Born | Pavlo Mykhailovych Hubenko 13 November 1889 near Hrun, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 28 September 1956 (aged 66) Kyiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Occupation | writer |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire, Soviet Union |
| Period | 1919-1956 |
| Genre | humoresque, feuilleton |
Pavlo Mykhailovych Hubenko[1] (Ukrainian: Павло Михайлович Губенко; 13 November [O.S. 1 November] 1889 – 28 September 1956), better known by the literary pseudonym of Ostap Vyshnia, was a Ukrainian writer, humourist, satirist, and medical official (feldsher). Nicknamed by critics as the Ukrainian Mark Twain and the Ukrainian Printing King; His fame was said to have competed in early Soviet Ukraine with only Taras Shevchenko and Vladimir Lenin.[2]
- ^ Vyshnia, Ostap (5 June 2018). Hard Times. Glagoslav Publications. ISBN 978-1-911414-80-3.
- ^ Finnin, Rory (1 March 2022). Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-3701-2.
He was Ukraine's "Mark Twain," the "king of the Ukrainian print-run," whose fame, it was said, rivalled only two others in early Soviet Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko and Vladimir Lenin.