Kosaryk Dmytro

Dmytro Kosaryk (Dmitriy Kovalenko) (b. October 31, 1904, Fidrivka, Ukraine – d. February 21, 1992, Kyiv), Ukrainian writer and literary scholar. He published his first work in 1923 and his first collection of short stories, The Red Baptismal Font, in 1925. He wrote stories about A. Pushkin, T. Shevchenko, and O. Kobylianska, as well as historical-biographical and literary articles, among other works. Kosaryk discovered the grave of D. Guramishvili in Myrhorod. He is the author of the scientific and literary essay David Guramishvili in Ukraine (published in Georgian twice — in 1949 and 1957; translated by L. Asatiani).

 

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