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Oles Berdnyk

Died
March 18, 2003
Age
76 years

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Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk (Ukrainian: Олександр (Олесь) Павлович Бердник; 27 November 1926 – 18 March 2003) was a Ukrainian science fiction writer, futurist and globalist, philosopher and theologian, public figure, Red Army soldier during World War II, and a political prisoner in Soviet camps. He wrote more than 20 novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian. He has been described as the most influential classic writer of Ukrainian science fiction.

He was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and a leader of the Ukrainian Humanist Association "Ukrainian Spiritual Republic."

Berdnyk was arrested in 1979 and sentenced to six years in the camps and three years in exile.. He was pardoned in 1984 .

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