Hanna Chubach

Hanna Chubach was a Ukrainian poet and Honored Art Worker of Ukraine. From 1971, she was a Member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine.

Biography

Hanna Chubach was born in 1941 in Ploske village, Vinnytsya Oblast, Ukraine.
After graduation from secondary and evening schools, in 1959, she moved with her husband to Kyiv, where she graduated from the Ukrainian Institute of Printing.
She worked as journalist in several paper media in 1970—80s. During that period, she started her career as a children literature author.
In 1997, during a trip to Washington, DC, for the World Conference on Literature of the Twenty-First Century, Chubach was elected an advisor to the Slavic peoples.
She gained the Lesia Ukrainka Prize in 2016.
Author of circa 60 books and more than 500 songs.
Hanna Chubach died in 2019.