Despite his eminent literary works, Ukrainian émigré writer Yurii Kosach (1908-90) is neither as well known nor as well liked as his family members, literary figures Lesia Ukrainka and Olena Pchilka.
"I still remember the moment: I was 16, it was summer 1976 and I stood on the Black Sea coast (the beach near Odessa). And suddenly I decided to start writing poems.”