The greetings are posted on the President's website on Facebook.
"I congratulate prominent Ukrainian literary critic, public figure, man-era - Ivan Dziuba on his birthday, and wish joy and happiness for many years to come !" - wrote Poroshenko.
Note: Ivan Mikhailovich Dzyuba was born in Donbas. Graduated from Donetsk Pedagogical Institute, and later - postgraduate study at the Institute of Literature named after. T. Shevchenko. Since 1959 - Member of the Union of Writers of Ukraine. For some time he worked in the State Library of Ukraine (later - the publishing house "Dnipro"), headed the criticism department in the journal "Fatherland". In 1963 - 1964 he was repeatedly dismissed from work "for
ideological errors. "Dziuba was among those who in 1965 at the premiere of" Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors " came out on the stage of the cinema" Ukraine "in protest against repression of Ukrainian intelligentsia. In that year he wrote his most widely known work -" Internationalism or Russification? ", which became a challenge to the totalitarian system. It has been translated into English, Italian, French, Russian, Chinese, and was adopted by the dissident movement as their ideologocal guidelines. Dziuba personally sent his scientific work to the leadership of the Soviet Ukraine, hoping for revision of the national cultural policy of the Soviet power in Ukraine. However, the arrests only intensified. At this time, associates of Dziuba-Stus Sverstyuk, Svitlychny, Igor and Irina Kalynets were sentenced. Dziuba was also expelled from the Writers' Union of Ukraine and arrested. A year later he was released, but for several years he was under official surveilance and was denied the right to speak in public by specialty. In autumn of 1989 Dziuba was one of the founders of the People's Movement of Ukraine. He is the author of many books and about 400 scientific works. The editor of the 10-volume series "Ukraine Anthology of the monuments of the state-building of the X-XX centuries", compiler of its 5th edition. The author of the scripts of the films "Vasyl Symonenko", "Ukrainians. Hope", co-author of scenarios of a number of films about Taras Shevchenko. Hero of Ukraine, holder of the Order of Liberty, Shevchenko State Prize laureate, winner of numerous international literary awards.
