Todiоs Osmachka – 20th-century Ukrainian poet and prose writer, author of “The Cliff” and “The Rotunda of Executioners.” A member of the “Executed Renaissance,” he endured repression, psychiatric prisons, and exile. His works are a tormented outcry about Ukraine and humanity under totalitarianism.
📚 His debut “The Cliff” (1922) brought him fame but also suspicion from Soviet authorities. 🚔 Arrested multiple times, also confined to psychiatric hospitals. 🌍 Fled west in 1943, later settled in the USA. 🖋 “The Rotunda of Executioners” (1956) is among the strongest anti-Soviet Ukrainian novels. 🎭 Poetry combines expressionism, folklore, and spiritual motifs. 💡 Believed true literature must always “stand against tyranny.” 😮 Odd fact: suffered from paranoid psychosis, convinced NKVD agents pursued him abroad. 😂 Funny: told frightening stories so vividly that friends joked they were “scarier than movies.”