Anatoliy Dimarov (born Anatoly Andronikovych Harasyuta on May 17, 1922, in Haratsky, Poltava Oblast – June 29, 2014,[1] Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer.
In his works, the writer was not afraid to depict the times of forced collectivization, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, and mass repression — segments of history that were severely taboo.
But the editors and the censors worked skillfully: they crossed out whole paragraphs, cut off the story lines and deleted a few chapters.
Only in 2004 Dimarov managed to republish the novel Pain and Anger in its original form in the Kyiv publishing house Ukraine, and in 2006 in the original version the novel And there will be people in the Kyiv publishing house Phoenix was republished.
[4] The novel "The Black Crow" is based on a true story from the life of Ukrainian Hryhoriy Nudha, a former Kolyma prisoner with whom Anatoliy Dimarov befriended in Lviv.
Anatoly Dimarov recalled that he had been writing the novel for only a month and with "an indescribable feeling of free, unfettered fear of flight."
For more than twenty years this novel lay on the desk and only after more than twenty years in the drawer, in 1989 in Melbourne the novel "Incombustible Bump", already called "Black Crow", was published in English translated by Yuri Tkach in the collection In Stalin's Shadow (Melbourne, 1989).
[5] 1982- Shevchenko Prize for the Second Part of " Pain and Anger" 2006- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise V Degree for "Significant personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian literature, many years of fruitful creative work and active public activity".
In November 2016, as part of the 83rd anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance included his name in the Unbreakable Project as a celebration at the state level of 15 prominent people who went through the terrible years of 1932-1933 and were able to realize themselves.