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Osmachka moved from
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Expecting death, Osmachka makes the last decision - to fight, but "not as a means of strength, but as a means of weakness" and feigns madness. He was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv. He was released, then arrested again. After another series of simulated seizures, Osmachka was released
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Osmachka's travels around the world, he never stopped, haunted by the fear of reprisals against him by KGB agents. Having moved from Germany to the USA, Osmachka wanted to focus on creative matters. He often spoke in front of Ukrainian communities, but fear and suspicion made him leave his place
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May 3] 1895 - 7 September 1962) was a
Ukrainian writer and poet. Representative of symbolism, expressionism, and neo-romanticism. Member of the writers' associations such as Association of Writers (Aspis) and "Lanka" (MARS). Translator of Shakespeare's works. Osmachka criticized the
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Osmachka began to hide wherever he could: in the houses of friends, cabins, in isolated farms and villages where he was not well known, sometimes even in his native village. He decided to move to Lviv after the German occupation of Ukraine began.
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and many other writers, was forced to emigrate to the West. At first, he settled in
Germany. Together with Ulas Samchuk Osmachka participated in the development of a new emigrant literary organization MUR (Ukrainian Art Movement). In 1953, the poetry collection
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Members of the "Lanka" literary association. From left to right: Borys
Antonenko-Davydovych, Hryhorii Kosynka, Maria Halych, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Valerian Pidmohylny and Todos Osmachka. 1925.
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A wave of denunciations in the form of literary and critical articles branded
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near New York. But on
September 7, 1962, at the age of 67, Todos Osmachka died. He was buried at St. Andrew's Orthodox Cemetery, South Bound Brook, New Jersey.
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Osmachka’s participation in literary life began during his student years. First, he was a member of the
Association of Writers (ASPIS), which was headed by
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communist ideology and the intelligentsia that cooperated with the authorities of the Moscow government. He was persecuted by
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was published, which collected poems from 1943-1948. In emigration, Osmachka's talent was revealed with new strength in his three prose works:
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His working career Osmachka started by teaching in folk schools. At the same time he started writing. During the World War I, for his poem
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is noticeable in late poetry collections. In his works, Osmachka paid particular attention to Ukrainian folk traditions and ethnography.
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In 2005, Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi published the biographical novel "Poet from Hell (Todos Osmachka)," for which he was awarded the
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when the ideological press clamped down on individual freedom of creativity. The 1930s ideological persecutions known as the
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In 2013, the Todos Osmachka Literary Prize was established.
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