Honchar Oles
Oles Terentievich Honchar was born April 3, 1918. After the death of his mother when the boy was 3 years old, he was taken from the factory on the outskirts of Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), to the upbringing by his grandfather and grandmother in a village of Sukhe in Kobelyaky uyezd, Poltava region. Hardworking and honest with regard to the people grandmother replaced mother of the future writer.
Oles Honchar - is another well-known name in the cohort of the famous Poltava. This is evidenced by the fact
that the works of O. Honchar has been translated into 67 languages, and creative experience of the writer is absorbed by native and foreign masters of the word.
This is grandmother of orphan boy instilled in him love for the mother tongue. In 1934, for permits of Komsomol Oles entered Kharkov Technical School of Journalism. In 1938 appeared the first novels and short stories. Being on the front, he printed in the army print his poetry. The recognition to him came with novel-trilogy "Guide-on Bearers" (1946-1948), the tale "The Earth drones" (1947), the novel "Sobor (Cathedral)" and other prose works.
Inspiration O. Honchar drew in his native land. Vaughn was born in the. "It's easy to breathe here, become clearer the thoughts " - confessed writer.
Work in the field of fiction Oles Honchar permanently united with literary and critical creativity. Having began in his student years from research of poetics of G. Kotsyubynsky and V. Stefanik, he eventually created dozens of articles that have already been published in three separate books ("On our writing", 1972; "On those, who are dear", 1978; "Writer's Meditations", 1980) and consisted in part to the six-volume collected works of the writer.
The writer died July 14, 1995.
