WHryhorii Danylovych Epik was a Ukrainian writer and journalist. He supported the Soviet Ukrainization during the 1920s which probably led to his arrest and execution during the Great Purge in the 1930s.
WOleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
WMarkiyan Kamysh is a Ukrainian novelist.
WHnat Martynovych Khotkevych was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musicologist, and bandurist.
WMaksym Ivanovych Kidruk is a Ukrainian travelogue and fiction writer. His professional career began in 2009 with an autobiographical novel The Mexican Chronicles, describing the journey across Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. Since then Kidruk traveled in 29 countries and wrote eight fiction books including travelogues, adventure stories and thrillers. He is the author of the very first Ukrainian techno-thriller Bot. Most of his stories are based on real places and events which Kidruk witnessed or heard of from fellow travelers during his journeys. From 2012, he has been working solely in the techno-thriller genre.
WOleksandr Yakovych Konysky was a Ukrainian interpreter, writer, lexicographer, pedagogue, poet, and civil activist of liberal direction. He had several pen names О. Return-freedom, F. Gorovenko, V. Burkun, Perebendia, О. Khutorianyn, and others. He also was a professional lawyer and also is known as the author of the text of the Ukrainian spiritual anthem "Prayer for Ukraine".
WIvan Feodosiyovych Korsak was a Ukrainian writer and journalist.
WMykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky, was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of ethnographic realism; in the years to come, with his style of writing becoming more and more sophisticated, he evolved into one of the most talented Ukrainian impressionist and modernist writers. The popularity of his novels later led to some of them being made into Soviet movies.
WHryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko (1778–1843) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright. Founder of Ukrainian classicist prose. He was born in the vicinity of Kharkiv.
WJaroslav Melnik is a Ukrainian/Lithuanian novelist, philosopher, and critic.
WPanas Myrny was a famous Ukrainian prose writer and playwright writing in Ukrainian language. He wrote in literary realism creating innovative social novels and stories from the life of the people.
WIhor Pavlyuk is a Ukrainian writer, translator and research worker.
WViktor Petrov was a prominent Ukrainian existentialist writer. He signed his works with pen names V. Domontovych and Viktor Ber. Together with Valerian Pidmohylny Petrov is considered to be the founder of the Ukrainian intellectual novel. Although Petrov is remembered as a writer today, during his life he was a scientist in the first place. He wrote papers on archaeology, anthropology, history, philosophy and literature.
WMykola Danylovych Rudenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, philosopher, Soviet dissident, human rights activist and World War II veteran. He was the founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki group, and was twice arrested for his dissident activities.
WMykhailo Stelmakh was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and playwright.
WOleksandr Stanislavovych Ulianenko was a Ukrainian writer known by the pen name Oles Ulianenko. He was the youngest winner of the Shevchenko National Prize, which he received in 1997, at the age of 35, for his novel Stalinka (1994).
WPavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi or Zagrebelnyi was a Ukrainian novelist.
WSerhiy Viktorovych Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.