Bohdan Melnychuk (; born 2 August 1952) is a Ukrainian writer, playwright, editor, journalist, local historian. Member of the National Unions of Journalists (1980), Writers' (1998), and of Ukraine (1998), full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (2017).
Bohdan Melnychuk was born on 2 August 1952, in the Molotkiv, now Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
In 1974, he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of University of Lviv.
He worked for the editorial offices of the newspapers "Holos Lanovechchyny", "Vilne Zhyttia" and "Ternopil Vechirnii" (both in Ternopil), in the , and was involved in public work.
Subsequently, he was the chief editor of the Ternopil Oblast Department for Press and Information (1989âÂÂ1993), the publishing house of the Ternopil Academy of National Economy, "Ekonomichna Dumka" (1998âÂÂ2003), the literary, artistic, and cultural newspaper "" (from 1992 to the present) and the magazine "" (from 1994 to the present; from 2009 â "Literaturnyi Ternopil").
From 2003 to 2009, he was the Deputy Head of the editorial board and the Chief Scientific Editor of Ukraine's first regional 4-volume "Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary".
From 2010 to 2014, he was the Chief Scientific Editor of the municipal enterprise "Ternopil Oblast Information and Tourist Local History Center," and the Executive Secretary of the editorial board for the 3-volume encyclopedic edition "".
Currently, he is the chief editor of the magazine "".
From 2016 to 2021, he headed the Public Council for the awarding of the [1].
He has published 38 of his own books of drama, prose, and poetry, including "Vybrani Novely" (1999), collections of novellas "Profesor i Bychok Bamburka" (2002), "Skrypka vid Staroho" (2004), "Yar" (2007), a two-volume collection of selected novellas "Sud bez Sudu" and "Zek, Vozhd i Harsia Lorka" (2010), the novella "Roksoliana, Dekan i Zhloby" (co-authored with ), the documentary novella "Solomiia Krushelnytska" (both 2011); collections of poems with parallel translation into Esperanto "Krapelyny-plus", "Novi Krapelyny" (both 2002), poetry collections "Vasha Presvitloste, Damo..." (2005), "Marii" (2006), "Taina Kokhannia" (2007), collections of plays "Aktor i Blazni" (2009), "Dovha Doroha v Korotkyi Den", "Rekviiem dlia Klarneta bez Orkestru" (both 2010), "Kava na Lezi Shabli" (2011), and others.
He is the author and co-author of 36 local history books, including: "Ternopil. Shcho? De? Yak?" (1989), "Bil i Pamiat Molotkova" (1990), "Taras Shevchenko na Ternopilshchyni" (1990, 1998, 2007), "Shliakhamy Bohdana Khmelnytskoho na Ternopilshchyni" (1991), "Za Ridnyi Krai, za Narid Svii..." (1993), "Shliakhamy Striletskoi Slavy" (1995), "Symon Petliura i Ternopilshchyna" (2009), "Velykyi Ukrainets iz Ternopillia. Yaroslav Stetsko. Zhyttievyi Shliakh Providnyka OUN" (2010), "Virna Dochka Ukrainy. Slava Stetsko: Zhyttiepis u Borotbi", "Ivan Franko i Ternopilshchyna", "Vid Makivky do Strypy" (all 2011).
In theaters across Ukraine (, , , , , , and folk theaters: Bohdan Lepky Kopychyntsi Theater, Ozerna Theater of Zboriv Raion, "Dyvosvit" of Ternopil Secondary School No 22, and others), 32 plays and stage adaptations by Melnychuk have been staged.
The play "Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine" (a stage adaptation by Melnychuk based on the works of Bohdan Lepky, staged at the Taras Shevchenko Dnipro Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre) was awarded the International Petro Orlyk Prize (1995).
On 12 December 2010, the premiere of the play "Mazepa" based on the works of Bohdan Lepky (stage adaptation by B. Melnychuk and ) took place at the T. H. Shevchenko Ternopil Academic Drama Theatre; it was awarded the regional Halytska Melpomena Prize.
Theatrical productions based on B. Melnychuk's plays "Charivni Pyrizhky Chervonoi Shapochky" (co-authored with S. Lvivska), "Kozatski Vitryla", and others have been awarded prizes at theater festivals.
Among the plays based on B. Melnychuk scripts are "Solomiya Krushelnytska", "Vista-Vio!" (based on Riflemen's humor), stage adaptations of works by , P. Zahrebelnyi, B. Lepky, A. J. Cronin, , , and others.
He is the author of hundreds of articles, essays, reviews, and other publications in the media.
He is the compiler and editor of over 500 collections, including works by Stefan Balei, Oleksandr and Barvinskyi (father and son), , , , and Matvii Stakhiv.
Over 100 songs with lyrics by Melnychuk and music by , Mykola Bolotnyi, V. Voinarskyi, , Y. Horishnyi, , O. Zozulia, B. Klymchuk, Leonid Miller, I. Mykolaichuk, M. Obleshchuk, and other composers have been published in the collections "Sad Liubovi" (2009), and "Sad LiuboviâÂÂ2" (2010). They are performed by L. Butenko, , Ihor Vovchak, Andriy Hambal, Stepan Hiha, , S. Derii, M. Dovhalov, Vitalii Svyryd, , Y. Shevchuk, and other artists. Song works with Melnychuk lyrics have been recognized at the "Pisennyi Vernisazh" competitions (2009, 2011), "Chervona Kalyna" (2009, 2010, 2011), "Melodii Pidkamenia" (2010, 2011), "Lira Hippokrata" (2010), and "Ukrainska Rodyna" (2010).
The book by , "Chotyry Vezhi Bohdana Melnychuka (Ternopil, 2002), tells the story of the writer's life and work.
A bibliographic index "Bohdan Melnychuk â Writer, Editor, Journalist, Local Historian" (Ternopil, vol. 1, 2009; vol. 2, 2012) has been published.
He has published over 25 books of drama, prose, and poetry, including:
He is the author and co-author of 15 local history books, including:
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