“Today, in the 90th year of his life, an outstanding Ukrainian poet, writer and publicist, one of the fathers of perestroika and publicity in the Soviet Union, many years of the editorial council of“ Gordon Boulevard ”, my friend Vitaly Korotich, are further meaningless … Bright memory!,” He wrote.
Korotich was born in Kyiv on May 26, 1936. He was an editor of different publications in Ukraine and Russia, wrote in both languages.
In 1988, for work in the All -Union magazine “Spark” (with a short circulation, the circulation grew from 1.5 million to 4.5 million copies) American magazine World Press Review assigned him the title “Foreign Editor of the Year”.
In August 1991, he remained in the United States when a coup began in Moscow, and until 1998 he was a professor at Boston University. He also wrote for the Moscow newspaper “New Gazing”, lectured in Australia, Mexico and Canada.
In an interview with Gordon in 2004, Korotich said that “stupid dissidentism” is unacceptable for him (they say, I restrained my forehead, I do not like everything against everything, especially the state) and “lackers” (“Everything that is deigned. Here it is, I”). “Both options for a normal person (in any case, for me) disappear,” he said.
