Valeriy Shevchuk (born August 20, 1939, in Zhytomyr[1]) is a Ukrainian writer.

[2] The most prominent books of the writer include “In the Midweek” (1967),[3] “The Esplanade 12” (1968),[3] “The Scream of the Rooster at Dawn” (1979),[4] “On a Humble Field” (1983),[5] “A House on a Mountain” (1983),[6] “Three Leaves Behind the Window” (1986),[7] “The Thinking Tree” (1986),[8] “Birds from an Invisible Island” (1989), “The Murrain” (1989), “An Eternal Clock” (1990), “The Woman of Flowers” (1990 – the collection of fairy tales),[5] “The path in the Grass.

The Zhytomyr Saga” (two-volume, 1994),[9] “Inside the Belly of an Apocalyptic Beast” (1995),[5] “Eye of the Abyss” (1996),[5] “The Snakewoman” (1998),[5] “Silver Milk” (2002), “The Vanishing Shadows.

He compiled and translated into modern literary language several collections of love poetry of the 16th to 19th centuries "Songs of Cupid" (1984) and of heroic poetry of the 9th and 10th centuries “Field of Mars” in 2 volumes (1989), “The Chronicle of Samiylo Velychko” (two-volume, 1991), etc.

Valeriy Shevchuk is a Honoured Professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and of the National University of Lviv.