Mykola Vinhranovsky

Pervomaisk, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine]

Writer, actor, film director, and translator. He graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1960) in Moscow and has worked at the Kyiv Artistic Film Studio, where he played the lead role in Yuliia Solntseva's film The Tale of Flaming Years (1961). He wrote film scripts and directed the feature films The Squadron Turns Westward (1967), The Shore of Hope (1967), Duma about Brytanka (1969), and Klymko (1984) and several documentaries. Vinhranovsky gained prominence in the early 1960s as a leading poet of the shistdesiatnyky. He published the poetry collections Atomic Preludes (1962), A Hundred Poems (1967), Poems (1971), On the Silver Shore (1978), Kyiv (1982), With Warm Lips and a Golden Heart (1984), I Love This Woman (1990), From the Days Embraced by You (1993), and Love, Do Not Say Farewell (1997); several books of stories, including In the Depth of the Rains (1980; about the making of a film) and The Horse on the Evening Star (1986); the novel Nalyvaiko (1991); and, from 1970, several poetry books for children, for which he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.