Andrii Harasevych (1917-1947), a Ukrainian writer, was born in the city of L’viv. He received his secondary education in Khust and Uzhhorod where his parents moved after the World War I. After graduation from gymnasium in Uzhhorod in 1937, Harasevych studied law at first, and then linguistics at Charles University and Ukrainian Free University in Prague.Harasevych lived in the DP camps in Karsfeld and Berchtesgaden, where he participated actively in literature and art groups. He was also a teacher of Ukrainian language at the gymnasium and a full member of the MUR organization. Harasevych published a collection of poems, “Sonety,” in Prague in 1941. The second collection of his poems, “Do vershyn,” was published posthumously in 1957 in the United States. During his literary career, he used the penname Andrii Surmach. Andrii Harasevych died in 1947 after falling from the Batsman Mountain. He is buried in Germany.