Mishchenko, Dmytro

Mishchenko, Dmytro [Міщенко, Дмитро; Miščenko], b 18 November 1921 in Stepanivka Persha, Melitopol county, Tavriia gubernia, 4 April 2016 in Kyiv. Writer and literary scholar. He completed postgraduate studies at Kyiv University in 1954 and was appointed senior editor of the Radianskyi Pysmennyk publishing house and editor in chief in 1964. Several collections of his short stories appeared: Syny moria (Sons of the Sea, 1955), Bat'kivs'ka liniia (Father’s Line, 1960), Vesniana povin' (Spring Flood, 1960), Dolia poeta (The Poet’s Fate, 1961), and Ochi divochi (Girl’s Eyes, 1964). Mishchenko wrote several novels, including Siveriany (The Siverianians, 1959), Vitry prynosiat' hrozu (The Winds Bring a Storm, 1968), Chest' rodu (The Clan’s Honor, 1977), and Naivyshchyi zakon (The Highest Law, 1978). His most important scholarly publication is Rozvytok realizmu v tvorchosti M. Kotsiubyns'koho (The Development of Realism in the Work of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, 1957).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]