Oleh Lysheha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oleh Lysheha

Ukrainian writer

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1949

Place of Birth: Tysmenytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 17-Dec-2014

Profession: writer, poet, translator, linguist

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Oleh Lysheha (Ukrainian: ???? ??????; 30 October 1949 – 17 December 2014) was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual.
Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an "unofficial" literary circle, Lviv Bohema.
As punishment, Lysheha was drafted into the Soviet army and internally exiled.
During the period 1972-1988, he was banned from official publication, but in 1989 his first book Great Bridge (Velykyi Mist) was published.
For "The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha," Lysheha and his co-translator James Brasfield from Penn State University, received the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Lysheha is the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN award.