Valerian Pidmohylny – 1920s Ukrainian writer, author of “The City” and “A Little Drama.” Among the first to introduce urban themes into Ukrainian prose, he was also a skilled psychologist and translator of French classics. Victim of Stalinist terror, executed at Sandarmokh in 1937.
📖 “The City” (1928) was the first major Ukrainian urban novel. 🌍 Translated Maupassant, Anatole France, Voltaire into Ukrainian. 🖋 Combined naturalism, psychology, and modernist techniques. 🏛 Member of the literary group “Lanka” (“Mars”). 🚫 Arrested in 1934, his works were banned and removed from libraries. 😮 Continued writing in camps, but manuscripts were lost. 😂 Funny: joked that even in Kharkiv he had “his own little Montmartre.”