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Volodymyr Rutkivskyi  [ Ukraine ]

Ukrainian children’s book author and poet Volodymyr Rutkivskyi was born in 1937. He has lived in Odessa since the early 1960s, where he also worked as a print and radio journalist. He received wide recognition in independent Ukraine with his adventure tetralogy  »Džuri«, which was also filmed in a 2016 Russian-Ukrainian co-production based on his screenplay. Rutkivskyi has received numerous awards. In 2011, the BBC named his historical novel »Sini Wodi« as book of the year.

 

Bibliography

 

Канікули у Воронівці» , 1989.

«Ганнуся» , 2012.

«Намети над річкою», 1989.

«Джури козака Швайки» ,2007.