Walerjan Pidmohylnyj
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Walerjan Pidmohylnyj (1901–1937) was a Ukrainian writer, translator, and editor. He was born in the Donbas, in a village near present-day Dnipro. His first collection of short stories was published in 1920. He also translated French authors such as Anatole France and Guy de Maupassant into Ukrainian. From 1922, he worked as a teacher in Kyiv and as an editor for a Ukrainian cultural journal. In the 1930s, he was prevented from publishing and was imprisoned several times. In 1935, he was convicted of alleged membership in a terrorist organization and sentenced to imprisonment in a camp on the Solovki Islands, where he was executed by shooting in 1937.