Гончар Олесь Терентійович

1918–1995

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Oleksandr Terentiyovych Honchar (born Bilychenko Oleksandr Terentiyovych) was a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, and public figure. He was born on April 3, 1918, in Lomivka, Katerynoslav Governorate, in the Ukrainian People's Republic, and died on July 14, 1995, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Honchar was a recipient of the Stalin Prize and the first recipient of the Republican Shevchenko Prize (1962). He served as chairman of the Union of Writers of Ukraine from 1959 to 1971 and was an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1978. He was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously in 2005 and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor on March 31, 1978. He was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1990 and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1960 to 1966 and again from 1971 to 1990. He also served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the 6th to 11th convocations.

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1918