Name	Stus, Vasyl´
Alternative Names
ID	8961
Gender	male
Lifespan	1938-01-06 - 1985-09-04
Professions	poet (Q49757)

Collection(s)	Religion in the Secular Age
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8961/
Notes	Today Stus is seen as a pioneer in the fight for freedom of Ukraine. Through religious references in his work he sought to illustrate and emphasise the dramatic repression he and his people had to endure as well as encourage hopefulness. He wrote five collections and more than 1000 poems in which destiny, the preservation of the soul and the acceptance of suffering played central roles, as well as the idea of the poet as prophet and religious leader who suffers for his people only to find salvation eventually. Much of his work was only published posthumously as his political activism and dissidant status led to him being sent to a detention camp in 1972 and a prison camp in 1979 where he eventually died of a hunger strike.
References	Woldan, Alois. "Religious aspects in Ukrainian poetry – the case of Vasyl´ Stus." Religion in the Secular Age. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW.