Petro Midianka

• Name — Petro Midyanka • Other Names — Ropet Kamidyan • Birth Name — Petro Mykolayovych Midyanka • Born — 14 May 1959 • Birthplace — Shyrokyy Luh, Zakarpattia oblast, USSR (now Ukraine) • Occupation — * Poet • teacher • Spouse — Lyudmyla Zagoruyko • Awards — see § • Education — Uzhhorod National University

Born on 14 May 1959, in the Ukrainian village of Shyrokyy Luh. Midyanka received his secondary education in Khust, and later obtained his degree from Uzhhorod National University's Faculty of Philology. Following his graduation from university in 1982, he goes back to his hometown and starts teaching in the nearby town of Novoselytsia, then Tysolovo in Tiachiv Raion.

Midyanka is based in Transcarpathia and works there. His debut novel, Поріг (1987), was published by a publishing firm in Kyiv. He produced additional collections Фараметлики (1994), Осередок (1994), and Зелений фирес (1999), all in Uzhhorod. He continued to create even in the turbulent 1990s, when censorship vanished and with it governmental backing for the book and publishing business after the fall of the Soviet Union. Midyanka instructs students in the language and literature of Ukraine. Along with his accomplishments in education, he was the 1998 Teacher of the Year competition winner. Užhorodské kavárny. Ужгородські кав'ярні, another intriguing novel written by Midyanka, is published in Prague in 2004 by a Ukrainian initiative in the Czech Republic. He released the book Мідянкув язік і стіл in 2007, with the sponsor of the Slovak Ministry of Culture. In Ukraine, the most excellent book of the year was declared to be Ярмінок (2008), the most recent collection. A discussion with Midyanka took held in the Khust Central City Library reading room on 26 May 2023. His wife moderated the meeting. Midyanka has been known to have written in Hungarian, Czech, Romanian. His poetry have been translated into English, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, and Hungarian. He published his poems in Slovakia and the Czech Republic in two different collections.

Midyanka claimed in a 2008 interview that his father, a 95-year-old logger, respected education much but not literature. His mother, on the other hand, was descended from musicians. It should be mentioned that his father was born in Austria-Hungary at the close of the 19th century. Lyudmyla Zagoruyko, an author of four books, is the spouse of Midyanka. She left Uzhhorod for Shyrykyy Lug, where she met him at the age of 55.