Writing · Writer · Author
Born Mar 19, 1930 · Rzhyshchiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Active 1993–present · Awards: Shevchenko National Prize, Antonovych prize, Honored badge of merit of the President of Ukraine, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class, Knight of the Legion of Honour, honorary citizen of Kyiv, honorary doctor of the Lviv University, Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"
Lina Vasylivna Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine's foremost poets…