Mykhaylo Semenko
Mykhayl Semenko | |
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Born |
December 31, 1892 Kybyntsi, Russian Empire |
Died |
October 23, 1937 (age 44) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation | Poet |
Language | Ukrainian |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Genre | Poetry |
Mykhaylo Vasylovich Semenko (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Семе́нко) was a Ukrainian poet, the prominent representative of the Ukrainian futuristic poetry of 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
He was a founder of futuristic groups Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova generatsiya. He was an editor in couple of almanacs and the journal "Nova generatsiya". As a poet Semenko had been writing mainly urban lyrics. Semenko was arrested in 1937 and executed by NKVD during the Great Purge. In the mid-1960s he was rehabilitated.
Sources
- Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: Смолоскип, 2004. (in Ukrainian)
- Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Semenko, Mykhailo
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