Vasyl Shkliar (born 10 June 1951, Hanzhalivka, Lysianka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast) is a Ukrainian writer and political activist. He is one of the most well known and widely read, contemporary Ukrainian authors. Some literary observers have even named him the “Father of the Ukrainian Bestseller”. The Committee of the Shevchenko National Prize declared him a Shevchenko Prize Laureate in 2011. Among his most well-known works are novels “Raven” (alternate English title "Raven's Way", 2009 , English translation - 2013, 2015), Marusia (2014), and "Black sun" (2015).

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