Geo Shkurupiy
Geo Shkurupiy Danylovych; 20 April 1903, Tiahynia was a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, and journalist. He was a representative of Panfuturism, "The King of Futurist Prairies". Shkurupiy was one of the prominent figures of the Executed Renaissance, a generation of Ukrainian intellectuals imprisoned and executed during the Soviet purges of the 1930s.
Biography
He was born into a family of a railway worker and a teacher and spent his childhood in Podillia. In 1920 he graduated from a Kyiv Classical Gymnasium and published his first work in the Hrono almanac. He enrolled at the medical faculty of Kyiv University, where he studied there only for one year. Later, he attended the Kyiv Institute of Foreign Relations. His career included working as a railway worker, editor, screenwriter at a film studio, and as a staff member at a newspaper.The writer was arrested in Kyiv on 3 December 1934, accused of belonging to the "Kyiv terrorist OUN". During two military tribunal hearings, Shkurupiy denied the charges and filed a complaint against unlawful investigative methods. On 27 April 1935, he was sentenced to 10 years in a labour camp on the Solovki Islands. His wife, Varvara Bazas, and their son were exiled from Kyiv as the family of an "enemy of the people". Shkurupiy was executed on 8 December 1937, and posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.
Literary development
Shkurupiy's collections of poetry include:Psykhotezy. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj defined the collection as "distinguished by eroticism, narcissism, neologisms, Dadaist elements, and typographic experiments".Baraban,Zharyny Sliv,More, andDlia Druziv Poetiv—Suchasnykiv Vichnosty.His novellas and novels include:Dveri v Den,Zhanna Batalionerka, andMis Andriiena.
Shkurupiy's short stories include: 'Peremozhets drakona', 'Pryhody mashynista Khorpa', 'Shtab smerty', 'Sichneve povstannia', 'Zruinovanyi polon', 'Strashna myt' ; and a collection of short stories, entitled Monhol's'ki Opovidannia.