For 48 years of his life, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk was a translator and a teacher, but most people know him as a writer of the Sixties who was blacklisted by Soviet censorship.
The writer chose the literary name Hryhir to distinguish himself from his older brother, a writer Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk.
Hryhir Tiutiunnyk worked in the scriptwriting workshop of the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv. There he created a literary screenplay based on his brother’s novel “The Whirlpool”.
On 6 March 1980, the writer committed suicide by hanging himself. The KGB took his suicide note. His wife Liudmyla remembered only a rough statement: “Torture someone else, burn everything I wrote”.
In 1989, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk was posthumously awarded the Taras Shevchenko State Prize.
The creative heritage of Hryhir Tiutiyunnyk is small – one volume of 600 pages. He wrote about 40 short stories, 5 novels, essays, and articles. But the value of his work is extremely high.
