The Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, former Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny, congratulated the famous Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko on her 95th birthday.
He wrote about this on his Telegram channel.
"Sincere. Brave. Free. Bright. Talented. Always modern and relevant. Unwavering and decisive. Her word goes to the very heart. It pierces, excites, and imprints in the memory. Many years, Ms. Lino. It is a great honor for me to know you," Zaluzhny noted.
Lina Kostenko is a Ukrainian poetess of the sixties, writer (historical novel, works for children), dissident. Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize (1987), the Antonovich Prize (1989), and the Order of the Legion of Honor (2022).
In 1967, together with Pavlo Tychyna and Ivan Drach, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In Soviet times, she actively participated in the dissident movement, for which she was excluded from the literary process for a long time. Author of poetry collections "Rays of the Earth" (1957), "Sails" (1958), "Journeys of the Heart" (1961), "Along the Banks of the Eternal River" (1977), "Uniqueness" (1980), "Garden of Unfading Sculptures" (1987), a novel in verse "Marusya Churai" (1979, Shevchenko Prize 1987), and the poem "Berestechko" (1999, 2010). In 2010, she published her first prose novel "Notes of a Ukrainian Self-Made Man", which became one of the best-selling Ukrainian books of 2011.
The most famous works are "Berestechko" and "Marusya Churai".
Honorary Professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Honorary Doctor of Lviv and Chernivtsi Universities.
Previously, "Lime" told the story of how Lina Kostenko refused the title of Hero of Ukraine.