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Vasyl Stus

1938 - 1985

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Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 6, 1938 – September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasyl Stus is the 2,001st most popular writer (down from 1,775th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 255th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasyl Stus ranks 2,001 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter Tevis, Paul Morand, Ahad Ha'am, Péter Esterházy, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, and Elizabeth of the Trinity. After him are Langston Hughes, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Bálint Balassi, Konstantin Ushinsky, Bion of Smyrna, and Joachim Neander.

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Among people born in 1938, Vasyl Stus ranks 154. Before him are Zbigniew Religa, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Oscar Robertson, Karel Svoboda, Bill Withers, and David Baltimore. After him are Patrick Bauchau, Violetta Villas, Anne Perry, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Derviş Eroğlu, and Paul Martin. Among people deceased in 1985, Vasyl Stus ranks 74. Before him are Jean-Marie Loret, Axel Springer, Matti Järvinen, Wellington Koo, Nicolas Frantz, and Eugene Ormandy. After him are Philly Joe Jones, Mary Kenneth Keller, Herbert Bayer, Wolfgang Reitherman, Fred Uhlman, and Afet İnan.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vasyl Stus ranks 291 out of 1,365. Before him are Rinat Akhmetov (1966), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Sidney Reilly (1873), and Ahad Ha'am (1856). After him are Franz Doppler (1821), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Igor Oistrakh (1931), David Riazanov (1870), Cassandre (1901), and Alfred J. Lotka (1880).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vasyl Stus ranks 39. Before him are David Burliuk (1882), Dobrodeia of Kiev (1101), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), and Ahad Ha'am (1856). After him are Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918).

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