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Epik (Ýïèê) Hryhorii Danilovich
(1901—1937)
Ukrainian writer and critic. In 1920–1925 he worked in the Communist Youth League of Ukraine and as an editor. In 1925–1929 he studied in the department of Ukrainian history at the Kharkiv Institute of Red Professors. After graduating, he became director of the Derzhlitvydav publishing house. His writings began to appear in print in 1923. Epik was a member of the literary organizations Pluh, Vaplite, and Prolitfront. Among his publications are the collections of short stories «At the Break» (1926), «In the Snows» (1928), «The Siege» (1929), and «A Tome of Satire» (1930); and the novels «Without Soil» (1928), «The Meeting» (1929), and «Nepia» (1930). In his prose of the 1920s he sharply criticized certain aspects of the Soviet regime, particularly in «Without Soil» (5th edn, 1932). But his last novels— «The First Spring» (1931) and «Petro Romen» (1932)—were written in the Stalinist spirit. In 1934 Epik was arrested; he perished during mass executions of prisoners marking the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917.
Ukraine, 2000, 
Grigory Epik
