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Nationality
  
Ukrainian

Occupation
  
Writer


Name
  
Pavlo Zahrebelnyi

Role
  
Novelist

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Born
  
August 25, 1924 (
1924-08-25
)

Died
  
February 3, 2009, Kiev, Ukraine

Books
  
First Bridge, Roksolana: roman, Pivdennyi komfort: roman

Awards
  

Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi (Ukrainian: Павло́ Архи́пович Загребе́льний) or Zagrebelnyi (Russian: Павел Архипович Загребе́льный) (August 25, 1924 in Soloshyne village, Poltava Governorate – February 3, 2009 in Kiev) was a Ukrainian novelist.

In 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Pavlo enlisted the Red Army as a volunteer. He participated in the Battle of Kiev and was severely wounded. He was the editor-in-chief of Literaturna Ukrayina (1961–1962). He was an author of short stories, novels about the war and also social and historical novels. He is a laureate of the State Award of Ukraine (1974) and the State Award of the USSR (1980). He was also awarded the Hero of Ukraine award for his works on August 25, 2004.

One of his best known novels is Roksolana (1980), about the life of Anastasia Lisovska, a Ruthenian girl from Galicia who became a wife of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and played a prominent role in the sixteenth century Ottoman Empire.

On February 5, 2009 President Victor Yushchenko paid his last respects to Zahrebelnyi.

Zahrebelny's books have been translated into 23 languages.

References

Pavlo Zahrebelnyi Wikipedia


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