Olena Oleksiivna Lytovchenko | |
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Native name | Олена Олексіївна Литовченко |
Born | Tashkent, Uzbek SSR | May 1, 1963
Died | October 28, 2021 Kyiv, Ukraine | (aged 58)
Occupation | Writer |
Years active | Since 2011 |
Notable awards | Vasil Yuhimovitch Literary Prize (2016), Panteleimon Kulish International Literary Arts Prize (2018), Ivan Mazepa Medal (2021) |
Spouse | Timur Ivanovich Lytovchenko (1963–2021) |
Children | Daughter Ludmila (1985) |
Olena Oleksiivna Lytovchenko (1 May 1963 – 28 October 2021) was a Ukrainian writer and a metallurgical engineer by education.
She wrote and co-authored with her husband Timur Litovchenko adventures, historical fiction, and detective fiction which books were published in Ukraine.[1]
Olena Oleksiivna Litovchenko was born on May 1, 1963, in Tashkent. Her father was a pilot and worked as a flight engineer in transport aviation. Until coming of age, she roamed not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia (Tyumen, Kurgan).[2]
In 1980, she completed her secondary education. In 1986, she graduated from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute's department of engineering and physics with a degree in metallurgical engineering. While studying there she met her future husband and co-author Timur.
Lytovchenko died on 28 October 2021, of COVID-19. She was 58.[3]
Olena's husband Timur Litovchenko was born in 1963 in Kyiv,[4] and they were married in 1984. She coauthored literary works with him since 2011. They have one daughter Ludmila who was born in 1985. Her father is from Motovylivka and her mother is from the Wuhanski noble family, who lived in the present-day Gmina Uchanie of Hrubieszów County, in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland.
As a teenager, a number of poems by Olena Lytovchenko were published in the Periodical Press of Kurgan, Russia. During her studies at KPI and after that she sometimes wrote short stories in the genre of fantasy.[2] A completely new stage began in 2011, when Olena and her husband Timur Litovchenko began to write historical prose together.[5] The novels of the creative Litovchenko couple were published by the Folio Publishing House of Kharkiv.[6]
Olena Lytovchenko also created a series of stories about pets in the family reading genre, one of which was included in the collection "Druzi nezradlyvi" (winners of the contest "Mi-mi-mi. Our favorites"), which was published by Staryi Lev Publishing House.[a][7]
From 2018 to 2021, the Litovchenko couple had the miniseries "101 Years of Ukraine" published by the Folio Publishing House of Kharkiv. In 2018, the first four books in the series were printed. In 2019, three more novels were published. In 2020, two more books were published. Their last book was published in 2021.[8]