# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oleh-lysheha
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:36:48.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oleh-lysheha"
name: "Oleh Lysheha"
slug: "oleh-lysheha"
description: "Oleh Lysheha was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an \"unofficial\" literary circle, Lviv Bohema. As punishment, Lysheha was drafted into the Soviet army and internally exiled. During the period 1972-1988, he was banned from official publication, but in 1989 his first book Great Bridge was published. For \"The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha,\" Lysheha and his co-translator James Brasfield from Penn State University, received the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Lysheha is the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN award."
tagline: "Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator (1949–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lyshega.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-10-30"
deathDate: "2014-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.542372881355932
  historical:           11.609
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump