Background
Valentine Kornienko was born in April 10, 1939 in the village Krasilovka, Brovary region.
Valentine Kornienko was born in April 10, 1939 in the village Krasilovka, Brovary region.
In 1956 he graduated from the Ternopil secondary school number 1, Faculty of Kyiv University (1961, now - National University).
Foreign almost 40 years he worked in Kiev publishing journals. At first the translator worked as a teacher in Ternopil. From 1965 to 2001 Kornienko was the editor of such youth publishings in Kyiv as "Dnipro", "Molod’", magazines "Ukraina", "Vsesvit", "United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Courier" and others
He edited more than 200 books of fiction.
From 2001 іn Ternopil he translated the works of British, Italian, Slovakian, Polish and American writers. Kornienko is an author of essays, literary portraits of foreign and Ukrainian writers, articles, reviews.