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Mykhaylo Osadchy (Ukrainian: Осадчий Михайло Григорович; March 22, 1936, in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and dissident.

Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from Lviv University in 1958. He taught there from 1960 to 1965. He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966. He was tried together with Mykhailo, Horyn's brother Bohdan Horyn, and M. Zvarychevska.

Osadchy was arrested for the second time January 1972. That September he was sentenced to seven years of labour camp and three years of exile.

He was able to return to teaching at Lviv University in 1990. In 1992, Osadchy became a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine.

Literary works

Osadchy's first book of poetry, 'The Moonlit Field' (Ukrainian: Місячне поле), was published in 1965 before his arrest. In 1971 his memoir 'Cataract' (Ukrainian: Більмо), was published. It was translated into French in 1974 and into English by Marco Carynnyk in 1976. His second collection of poems was published in 1979 and was called 'Quos ego'. The third one, 'The Scythian Altar' (Ukrainian: Скифський вівтар), was published in 1990.

Bibliography

• M. Osadchy. Misyachne pole .— Kamenyar, Lviv, 1965
• M. Osadchy. Bilmo: Avtobiohrafichny narys — Paris – Baltimore: Smoloskyp 1971
• M. Osadchy. Zustrich z vozhdem // Ukrainsky visnyk, 1987, №8.— pp. 18–25.

References

1. ^ OSADCHY, Mykhailo Hryhorovych
2. ^ Central Intelligence Agency. "QRPLUMB VOL. 2 (DEVELOPMENT AND PLANS, 1970-78)_0018" (PDF). Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
3. HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF UKRAINE. Historical Dictionaries of Europe, no. 45 by Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, 992 pp., Scarecrow Press, 2013, ISBN 9780810878471
4. Cataract / Mykhaylo Osadchy ; translated from the Ukrainian, edited, and annotated by Marco Carynnyk

• 1936 births
• 1994 deaths
• People from Sumy Oblast
• Ukrainian male writers