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"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
Shcherbak Yuriy Mykolayovych is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, epidemiologist, publicist, politician, author of about 100 scientific papers and two dozen books, born on October 12, 1934 in Kyiv.
In 1958, he graduated from the Kyiv Medical Institute with a degree in “sanitary doctor”. Doctor of Medical Sciences (1983). Honorary Doctor of Medicine of the O. O. Bogomolets National Medical University (2014), Professor. Laureate of the Yu. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984). Chairman of the Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (2016-2019). Speaks Polish and English.
Yuriy Shcherbak began his literary career in the mid-1950s. He wrote his first stories in the student newspaper “For Medical Personnel” and published satirical “illustrated reviews”. His first story “As in War” (1966) tells about the everyday life of doctors, and his first stories were published in the magazine “Youth”. Since 1966 he has been a member of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine. In 1975, he made his debut as a playwright with the play “Discovery” at the Kharkiv Academic Theater named after A. Pushkin. Speaking Polish, he translated poetry by Polish authors.
Yuri Shcherbak is the author of a novel about the problems of heart transplantation “Barrier of Incompatibility”, a documentary novel “Causes and Consequences”, short stories, collections of short stories, poems and plays. For the collection of short stories “Light Dances of the Past” he was awarded the Yuri Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984), for the screenplay for the film “State Relations” – the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Prize. As a publicist, Yu. Shcherbak gained fame for his articles about the Chernobyl tragedy.
In 1998, the Institute of Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University published Shcherbak's political and journalistic book “The Strategic Role of Ukraine” in English, and in 2003 his book “Ukraine: Challenge and Choice (Perspectives of Ukraine in the Globalized World of the 20th Century)” was published.
More information at the book exhibition in the college library and information center. Yuriy Shcherbak's books are an excellent example of the combination of literature and medicine.
Svitlana ANDRIYCHUK,
Lead Librarian of the BIC
