Dmytro Nytczenko

He was a laureate of the Skovoroda and Volodymyr Antonovych Prizes, and a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine.

Nytczenkowas born in Zinkiv, Poltava, Ukraine on February 21, 1905,[1] and died on May 27, 1999, in Melbourne, Australia.

In the 1954 Dmytro Nytczenko was the initiator, and then President of the Ukrainian Vasyl Symonenko Club of Victoria whose main objectives was educational, literary and cultural activities, including seminars.

[3] One of Nytczenko's most important activities was the editing and production of Novy Obriy (Ukrainian: Новій обрій—The New Horizon), a literary almanac published approximately every five years, beginning in 1954.

[3] Nytczenko also compiled two anthologies: a collection of poetry entitled Z-pid evkaliptiv: poems (Ukrainian: З-під евкаліптів—From Under the Gumtrees: Poetry) published in 1976; and On the Fence: An Anthology of Ukrainian Prose in Australia (translated into English by Yuri Tkach in 1985).