Lyubomyr Dmytrovych Dmyterko was a Soviet and Ukrainian poet, prose writer, war journalist, literary critic, screenwriter, playwright, interpreter. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1935. He also is a recipient of the 1979 Shevchenko state award of Ukraine in literature. Dmyterko became one of three members of the Western Ukraine literary group who did not end up in the Soviet Gulag system after being arrested in connection with the 1933 Ukrainian Military Organization case.
