He was born in the village of Horodnytsia, now in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Under the pseudonym Hryts Shchypavka, he published several satirical and humorous books, including Infernal letters (Antichrist to Lucifer), New-fashioned psalmist, and Chruniad.

In 1912 or 1913, Shpytko immigrated to Brazil, where he also wrote in Portuguese: "Otherworldly Poems", "The Story of a Freak", "The Macabre Dance of Death" and his most famous book of this period - the collection of short stories "No túmulo da vida" ("On the grave of life", 1930).

Who, reading his autobiographical novel "Freak", which was a precursor to the stories of Jack London or Locke, as a young person, does not recall even now this trembling of the soul, which this idealized anarchist of life in the novel awakened in him, giving birth to envy, and at the same time surprise for the hero that exposed himself so unapologetically to the reader?

Or those immortal vulgar "Letters from Hell" ...He died in 1942 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.