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Volodymyr Zenonovych Hzhytskyi (15.10.1895–19.12.1973) was a member of the Pluh Union of Ukrainian Writers and the Western Ukraine literary organisation. In 1933, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in labour camps, but his exile lasted 21 years. From 1956 he lived in Lviv."

Hzhytskyi is the author of the novels Black Lake (1929), Into the Wide World (1960), Day and Night (1965), Great Hopes (1966), and a number of short stories. In his novels "Opryshky" (1962) and "Karmeliuk" (1971), he depicts the folk avengers of the Carpathians and Podillia in a romantic spirit. The author's main source of stories was folk tales.