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Ukrainian literature
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Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language.
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The original literature in Kievan Rus was written in the Church Slavonic and was strong between the 11th and 13th centuries. One major work was the Tale of Bygone Years by Nestor. Another key work includes the Slovo o polhu Ihorevi (The tale of Igor's campaign).
The Ostrih Bible was printed in 1581. Other works included anonymous Perestoroha and the writing of Hypatius Ponti
The sixteenth century included the folk epics called dumy. These songs celebrated the activities of the Cossacks.
The father of Ukrainian literature in the modern vernacular form of the Ukrainian language is Ivan Kotlyarevsky, who wrote a travesty of Virgil's Aeneid (1798). This mock epic poem turns Virgil's characters into Ukrainian Cossacks. Its language was based on the spoken Ukrainian of the Poltava region.
As in all European countries, literature in Ukraine was involved in the modernism process. Topics of feminism were raised in the works of Lesya Ukrainka and Olha Kobylyanska. Other two important writers were Valerian Pidmohylny and Viktor Petrov. Their writing was inspired by existentialism.
Ukrainian writers include: Hryhori Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Taras Shevchenko, Marko Vovchok, Panteleimon Kulish, Ivan Franko, Olha Kobylyanska, Lesya Ukrainka, Vasyl Stefanyk, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Khvylovy, Valerian Pidmohylny, V. Domontovych, Mykola Kulish, Mykola Bazhan, Maksym Rylsky, Mykola Zerov, Mykhail Semenko, Ostap Vyshnia, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Olena Teliha, Ivan Bahrianyi, Oles Honchar, Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko, Ivan Drach, Yevhen Hutsalo, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk, Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, Valerii Shevchuk, Ihor Kalynets, Emma Andijewska, Vasyl Stus, Yuri Andrukhovych, Oksana Zabuzhko, Oleksandr Irvanets, Viktor Neborak, Yuri Vynnychuk, Izdryk, Serhii Zhadan, Maria Matios
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