Oles Honchar
Oles (Oleksandr) Honchar (1918–1995) was a Ukrainian writer, author of the novels The Standard-Bearers, Land of Wild Roses and The Cathedral, a public figure and Hero of Ukraine, laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize. His novel The Cathedral (1968), written against the destruction of historic monuments, was banned by the Soviet authorities. He was born on 3 April 1918 in Sukhachivka, Dnipropetrovsk region, and died on 14 July 1995 in Kyiv.Collection3