Oksana Ivanenko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Dmytrivna and the family name is Ivanenko.

Oksana Ivanenko Оксана Іваненко
Born	March 31, 1906 Poltava, Russian Empire
Died	December 16, 1997(1997-12-16) (aged 91) Kyiv, Ukraine
Resting place	Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv
Occupation	children's writer translator
Nationality	Ukrainian
Notable awards	Shevchenko National Prize Order of Friendship of Peoples
Relatives	Dmytro Ivanenko (brother)

Oksana Dmytrivna Ivanenko (Ukrainian: Оксана Дмитрівна Іваненко; March 31, 1906 – December 16, 1997) was a Ukrainian children's writer and translator. In 1974, she was the winner of the Lesia Ukrainka Literary Prize for the novels Рідні діти (Native Children), Тарасові шляхи (Taras Ways), and Лісові казки (Forest Tales). She was also the winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1986, for the book Завжди в житті (Always in Life). She was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, three Orders of the Badge of Honor, and medals.

Biography

Oksana Ivanenko was born in Poltava, March 31, 1906. She was the daughter of journalist and writer Dmytro Ivanenko, and teacher Lydia Ivanenko. Her brother was theoretical physicist, Dmytro Ivanenko. She was the mother of children's writer, Valeria Ivanenko.

Ivanenko studied at the gymnasium, and then at the workers' school. In 1922, she entered the Poltava Institute of Public Education.

Since 1925, her literary activity included the publication of a large number of books for children and youth. In 1926, she graduated from the Faculty of Social Education of the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education, and in 1931, she was an aspirant at the graduate school, Ukrainian Research Institute of Pedagogy, where she headed the section of children's literature in the Kyiv branch of this institute. She was an educator at the Gorky Children's Colony under Anton Makarenko. From 1932 to 1939, she worked for the Young Bolshevik publishing house, and from 1947 to 1951, for the «Барвінок (Periwinkle) magazine. From 1939 to 1957, she lived in Kyiv at the Roliti Writers' House.

Her works were published in a five-volume "Works" (vols. 1-5, 1984-1994). Ivanenko died in Kyiv on December 17, 1997. She was buried in Baikove Cemetery.

Selected works

Children's literature

• "Mother and Frog" (1930)
• "Kindergarten" (1931)
• "Forest Tales" (1934)
• "Big Eyes" (1936)
• "Bumblebee" (1937)
• "Three Wishes" (1940)
• "Where did the crane fly" (1947)
• "Fairy Tales" (1958)

Short stories

• "Printer of Unseen Books" (1947, about Ivan Fedorovich)
• "Native Children" (1951)
• "Bogdan Khmelnytsky" (1954)
• "The Great Noise" (1967)

Novels

• Taras Ways (1961, the first two parts were published in 1939; about Taras Shevchenko)
• Maria (1973, 1977, 1986, 1988; about Mark Vovchko)

Screenplays

• Mountain Flower (1937)

Memoirs

• Always in Life (1985)

Translated works

• Turgenev by André Maurois - from French (1977)
• Malachite box by Pavel Bazhov - from Russian (1979)
• The Blind Musician, Children of the Dungeon by Vladimir Korolenko - from Russian
• Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - from Danish
• Tales of the Brothers Grimm - from German

References

Sources

• Yankovska OV Ivanenko Oksana Dmytrivna // Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine  : in 10 volumes / editor: VA Smoliy (chairman) and others. ; Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . - К. _ : Наукова думка , 2005. - Т. 3: Е - Й. - p. 396. : il. - ISBN 966-00-0610-1.
• Tchaikovsky, B. Y. Ivanenko Oksana Dmitrievna // Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine  : in 30 volumes / ed. count. I. M. Dziuba [etc.]; NAS of Ukraine , NTSh . - К. _ : Institute of Encyclopedic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , 2001–2020. — Volume 11: Зор — Как, ISBN 978-966-02-6092-4.
• Kryzhanivsky SA Ivanenko Oksana Dmytrivna // Ukrainian Literary Encyclopedia . - Vol. 2. - K., 1990. - p. 288.
• Writers of Soviet Ukraine. - K., 1970. - pp. 162—163.
• Shevchenko laureates: 1962-2001. K., 2001. - pp.199-200.
• Oksana Ivanenko. Writings.
• Life and work of OD Ivanenko at WaybackMachine
• Ivanenko, Oksana Dmitrivna on the site "History of Poltava".
• https://www.perets.org.ua/Журнал_перець_1986_07/?page=4