Friends!

On this day in 1901 was born Ukrainian writer Ivan Senchenko. Extremely hardworking man, he was not very well known. And we'll have to correct this injustice.

He was born in the village Natalyno, in the family of gardener. His father, without land, wasforced to work as a laborer, singer, gardener, shopkeeper, church regent. Ivan was a talented guy, finished Kostyantynohradsky college well. His father wanted son to study in a high school, but it did not happen. Education was overpriced - 80 rubles a year! So, Ivan studied at the teachers' seminary.

Later Ivan Senchenko became a teacher in his native village, and later moved to Kharkov. Love of books turned into work. He worked as a seller in the bookstore, as a librarian, teacher of Ukrainian language in the labor circle. He began to work as a journalist – wroteto different magazines. He entered the Kharkiv Institute of Education. In student times, he started to write - first verse, and then the stories. "Chernozem forces", he considered as his first major prose work. Senchenko read a lot, which is not surprising in view of his work. He loved Shevchenko, Kotlyarevsky, Gogol, Heine, Balzac and Cervantes. Not surprisingly, he joined the most famous literary organizations - "Plyh" "Hart" and later "VAPLITE."

Ivan Senchenko was not only a talented man, but also outstanding mentor to other writers - Alexander Kopylenko, George Smolich and others. Repeatedly published critical articles about the Ukrainian writers to start a literary discussion.

As his vertex work he considered the story "Savka" which comprehended the value of life, even in its everyday manifestations. But the real recognition Senchenko did not recognize. All his life, he was writing -first at work, later at home. Writer died in Kyiv, on the 9th of November, 1975. He is buried at the Baikove cemetery.

Friends! Ivan Senchenko was distinctive Ukrainian author and we have to read his wors. Because there are interesting and atypical Ukrainian philosophy of making the usual images of characters from a different, unexpected angle.