Roman Kudlyk

Roman Mykhailovych Kudlyk (May 4, 1941 Jaroslaw, Poland) (Ukrainian: Рома́н Миха́йлович Ку́длик) is a Ukrainian poet and writing critic.

Early life and education

Kudlyk was born in a family of a serviceman. In 1945 he moved to Drohobych. In 1958 he obtained his general education in Drohobych. In 1959 he enrolled in Lviv University and graduated in 1964.

Career

Kudlyk then obtained work as an electrician at the local oil refinery, newspaper and a magazine called October. He also worked also at the Lvivian TV-studio as the head of the literal department of the Lviv regional concert hall.

His writing was first published in 1957 by newspapers and magazines and then later in the collective volumes Apple bloom (Yablunevy tsvit, 1961) and Godspeed (Schaslyvoi dorohy, 1962).

He has been a member of the National Society of Writers (Ukraine) since 1965.

He is the author of the lyrics to Volodymyr Ivasiuk's songs, I am your wing («Я — твоє крило», 1972), «Нам спокій, друже, тільки сниться» (1978), «Освідчення». His writings have been put to music in the songs of Ihor Bilozir («Спогади літньої ночі», «Лебеді весни»), and Bohdan Yanivsky.

He wrote a liberto to several opera works of Bohdan Yanivsky, Oles Ballad «Олеська балада» (after the roman of Roman Ivanchuk Cherlene vyno «Черлене вино»), Princess Frog «Царівна Жаба», Golden chatter «Золотий гомін» (by Pavlo Tychyna), and musicals Fox Mykyta «Лис Микита», Ring of Temptation «Перстень спокуси».

He has received the Lviv regional award of Oleksandr Havryliuk and in 1997 the Literal award of Vasyl Mysyk for the series of poems Night time grape-picking.

At present he is the head of the magazine Dzvin and lives in Lviv.

Publications

• Conversation (Rozmova, 1963)
• Springtime billyard (Vesniany bilyard, 1968)
• Apple streetlamps (Yablunevi likhtari, 1979)
• Leaves of a wild grape (Lystia dykoho vynohradu)(Horishnia brama, 1991)