Nykolyshyn, Dmytro

Nykolyshyn, Dmytro [Николишин, Дмитро; Nykolyšyn], b 1884 in Ivankiv, Borshchiv county, Galicia, d 14 December 1950 in Lviv. Writer, publisher, literary critic, and pedagogue. From 1914 to 1935 he owned and operated the Zahalna Knyhozbirnia publishing house in Kolomyia. He also taught at the Ukrainian gymnasium in Kolomyia and conducted the Boian choir there. He wrote a long introduction and notes to a book of Taras Shevchenko’s historical poems (1914); the plays Rozladdie (Disorder, 1911), Taina (The Secret, 1923), Samson (1928), Maty (Mother, 1929), and Irod Velykyi (Herod the Great, 1936); and poetry collections, such as Svitannia i sutinky (Dawns and Dusks, 1936) and Lystopadova symfoniia (November Symphony, 1937). He also translated Latin and German poetry into Ukrainian. Arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1950, he died in prison.

[This article was updated in 2026.]