Autograph of Lina Kostenko

Certified Authentic autograph in the book Lina Kostenko (1930) is a Ukrainian poetess in her sixties, writer (historical novel, works for children), dissident. Winner of the Shevchenko Prize (1987), the Antonovich Prize (1989), the Order of the Legion of Honor (2022). In 1967, along with Pavel Tychyna and Ivan Drach, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Soviet times, she took an active part in the dissident movement, for which she was excluded from the literary process for a long time. The author of the poetry collections "On the banks of the eternal river" (1977), "Inimitability" (1980), "The garden of unmelting sculptures" (1987), the novel in verse "Marusya Churai" (1979, Shevchenko Prize (1987), the poem "Berestechko" ( 1999, 2010).In 2010, she published her first prose novel, "Notes of a Ukrainian Self-made Man", which became one of the best-selling Ukrainian books in 2011. Honorary professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, honorary doctor of Lviv and Chernivtsi universities. Refused the title of Hero of Ukraine. In the modern Ukrainian tradition, she is included in the list of the most famous women of ancient and modern Ukraine