List of Ukrainian-language poets explained

The following is a list of Ukrainian-language poets (chronological).

18th century

• Hryhori Skovoroda – Kharkiv Oblast

19th century

• Taras Shevchenko – Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast
• Ivan Franko – Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast
• Leonid Hlibov – Lubny Raion, Poltava Oblast
  • • • Yevhen Hrebinka – Ubizhyshche, (today  - Marianivka), Poltava Governorate Levko Borovykovsky – Myliushky, Poltava Governorate Ivan Vahylevych – village of Yasen (today in Kalush Raion), Stanisławów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Markiyan Shashkevych – Pidlyssia, Złoczów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
• Panteleimon Kulish – Voronizh (now in Sumy Oblast)
• Yuriy Fedkovych – Putyla (now in Chernivtsi Oblast)
• Pavlo Chubynskyi – village Hora, Pereyaslav county, Poltava Governorate
• Hryts’ko Kernerenko
• Mykola Markevych – Dunaiez (now in Sumy Oblast)
• Mykhailo Petrenko

20th century

• Emma Andijewska – Donetsk
• Yuri Andrukhovych – Ivano-Frankivsk
• Bohdan Ihor Antonych – Nowica
• Ivan Bahrianyi – Okhtyrskyi Raion, Sumy Oblast
• Natalka Bilotserkivets^[1] – Kyiv
• Hanna Chubach – Vinnytsya Oblast
• Taras Chubay – Lviv
• Bohdana Durda – Buchach
• Moisey Fishbeyn – Kyiv
• Semyon Gudzenko – Kyiv
• Vasyl Holoborodko – Adrianopil
• Mykola Khvylovy – Trostianets, Sumy Oblast
• Lina Kostenko – Rzhyschiv, Kyiv Oblast
• Roman Kudlyk – Jarosław, Poland
• Natalia Liwycka-Chołodna – Zolotonosha
• Oleh Lysheha – Tysmenytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
• Atena Pashko – Drohobych Raion
• Ihor Pavlyuk – Kyiv
• Yaroslav Pavulyak – Ternopil Oblast
• Yuriy Ruf – Lviv
• Maksym Rylsky – Kyiv
• Ihor Rymaruk – Kyiv
• Iryna Senyk – Boryslav
• Volodymyr Sosiura – Debaltseve, Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Donbas region)
• Vasyl Stus – Haisynskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast
• Olena Teliha – Moscow, Russia
• Pavlo Tychyna – Chernihiv Oblast
• Lesya Ukrainka – Zviahel, Zhytomyr Oblast
• Leonid Vysheslavsky - Kyiv
• Mykola Zerov – Zinkiv, Poltava Oblast

21st century

• Tetiana Cherep-Perohanych — Kyiv
• Yaryna Chornohuz
• Daria Chubata – Ternopil
• Eugenia Chuprina – Kyiv
• Marianna Kiyanovska – Zhovkva^[2]
• Iya Kiva – Donetsk
• Maksym Kryvtsov – Rivne^[3]
• Myroslav Laiuk – Kyiv^[4]
• Kateryna Mikhalitsyna – Mlyniv^[5]
• Halyna Petrosanyak – Ukrainian Carpathians^[6]
• Mariana Savka – Kopychyntsi^[7]
• Iryna Shuvalova – Kyiv^[8]
• Lyuba Yakimchuk – Donbas^[9]
• Tetiana Yakovenko – Sobolivka
• Serhiy Zhadan – Donbas^[9]

Notes and References

1. Book: Miller, Jane Eldridge . Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing . 37–38 . 2001 . 0415159806.
2. Web site: Kiyanovska Marianna . 2022-02-26 . PEN Ukraine . en-US.
3. News: На фронті загинув український поет Кривцов Максим . Букви . 2024-01-08 .
   News: Поліна Іваненко . "Непоправна втрата для України": на війні загинув відомий поет . РБК-Україна . 2024-01-07 .
4. Web site: Myroslav Laiuk . 2022-05-09 . www.poetryinternational.com . nl.
5. Web site: Mikhalitsyna Kateryna . 2022-03-04 . PEN Ukraine . en-US.
6. Web site: Naydan . Michael M. . 2007-01-01 . Halyna Petrosanyak (poet) - Ukraine . 2022-03-01 . Poetry International.
7. Web site: Savka, Mar'iana, 1973- . 2022-02-26 . Library of Congress.
8. Web site: Shuvalova Iryna . 2022-03-24 . PEN Ukraine . en-US.
9. Web site: 2022-03-22. Los Angeles Review of Books. 22 February 2022. Los Angeles Review of Books.