Oleksandr Korotko

From 2014 to 2020 he worked in the field of poetry and prose, gave several major interviews for online and print publications.

In 2010, the book «Abraham and Yitzchak» was presented to readers again, this time the plot took the form of a play, which was published in Israel (Jerusalem, «Philobiblon», 2012).

In 2001, based on Oleksandr Korotko's early poetry, the People's Artist of Ukraine Vitaliy Malakhov staged the play «Celestial's Quarter» at the avant-garde Kyiv Theater on Podil, which was part of the theatre's repertoire for several years. It was later shown at the Ivan Franko National Drama Theater in Kyiv.

The last large-scale project «Poetic Evening for Two», which involved Bella Akhmadulina and Olexander Korotko, ended the era of «big halls» in 2000 in Kyiv, on the stage of the National Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.

The beginning of «official» literary activity dates back to the second half of the ‘80s when Alexander Korotko began publishing in the «Literary Newspaper». The first collection of poems «Window» was published by «Youth» in 1989. Echoes of the Silver Age, traditions of classical poetry, and a pronounced modernist orientation were intertwined in the works.

His wife, Liudmyla, is an economist by education and a former classmate of Oleksandr Korotko. Married since 1973. They have two daughters: the eldest Hanna graduated from the Medical University, Candidate of Medical Sciences, works as a doctor, the youngest daughter Yevheniia was educated at the Kyiv Institute of International Relations. Alexander has three grandchildren. The Korotko couple and the eldest daughter's family live in Kyiv; the youngest daughter with husband and two children – in the USA.

Oleksandr Korotko (August 29, 1952 Korosten, USSR) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, essayist. Member of the Belgian PEN Club, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature, member of the Writers' Union of Israel. The representative of the modern avant-garde trend in philosophical poetry..mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}

He was born on August 29, 1952, in the small Ukrainian town of Korosten. Father Shimon Korotko was a participant in the World War II. For many years he was the Chairman of the Jewish religious community of Simferopol (Autonomous Republic of Crimea). A Jewish cultural centre is named after him «Hesed Shimon». Mother Maria Korotko is a textile industry technologist.