Oles Berdnyk

Oles Berdnyk
Олесь Бердник
Berdnyk in 1988
Born(1926-11-27)27 November 1926
Vavylove, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died18 March 2003(2003-03-18) (aged 76)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Known for
  • Science fiction writing
  • being a dissent
Notable workApostle of Immortality: Ukrainian Science Fiction, Fantastic Encounters, Star corsair, Prometheus

Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk (Ukrainian: Олександр (Олесь) Павлович Бердник; 27 November 1926[a] – 18 March 2003)[1] was a Ukrainian science fiction writer, futurist and globalist, philosopher and theologian, public figure,[2] Red Army soldier during World War II, and a political prisoner in Soviet camps.[3] He wrote more than 20 novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian. He has been described as the most influential classic writer of Ukrainian science fiction.[4][5][6]

He was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and a leader of the Ukrainian Humanist Association "Ukrainian Spiritual Republic."

Berdnyk was arrested in 1979 and sentenced to six years in the camps and three years in exile.[7]. He was pardoned in 1984 [8].

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ officially 25 December 1927

References

  1. ↑ "Berdnyk, Olesʹ (1927-2003)". bibliotheken.nl. Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України - Олександр (Олесь) Павлович Бердник - український письменник-фантаст, філософ, громадський діяч" [Central State Archive of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Administration of Ukraine - Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk - Ukrainian science fiction writer, philosopher, public figure]. tsdavo.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Бердник Олесь (Олександр) Павлович" [Berdnik Oles (Alexander) Pavlovich]. esu.com.ua. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Hajder, Tatiana (2019). "Myth and Philosophy in the Slavic Science Fiction Novel". LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art (101): 85–93. ISSN 0868-7692.
  5. ↑ Maguire, Muireann (2016). "Smyrniw, Walter Ukrainian Science Fiction: Historical and Thematic Perspectives (review)". Slavonic and East European Review. 94 (3): 518–520. doi:10.1353/see.2016.0130. ISSN 2222-4327.
  6. ↑ Roberts, Brittany (2014). Smyrniw, Walter (ed.). "Elusive Information about a Largely Untranslated SF Tradition". Science Fiction Studies. 41 (3): 674–676. doi:10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0674. ISSN 0091-7729. JSTOR 10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0674.
  7. ↑ CCE 55.1-1 (4), December 1979, "Five trials in Ukraine"
  8. ↑ [https://museum.khpg.org/en/1113844054 BERDNYK, Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych, KHPG
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