Valerian Pidmohylny
Valerian Pidmohylny | |
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| Born | 2 February 1901 |
| Died | 3 November 1937 (aged 36) |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, translator, literary critic |
| Notable works | The City, A Little Touch of Drama |
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Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny (Ukrainian: Валер'ян Петрович Підмогильний; 2 February 1901 - 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for his novel The City (Ukrainian: Місто, romanized: Misto). Like a number of Ukrainian writers, he flourished in the 1920s Ukraine, but in the 1930s, he was constrained and eventually arrested by the NKVD on fabricated charges of terrorism. He was executed in Sandarmokh in 1937, during the Great Purge. He is one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance.