Kost Lavro
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Kost Lavro (born in 1961, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian artist and illustrator.[1][2][3] He is a close collaborator with the poet and publisher Ivan Malkovych. Laureate of Shevchenko National Prize in 2010.[4]
Kost Lavro was Born on March 11, 1961 near Dikanka (now Poltava region, Ukraine).
Education
Lavro studied art early at the Shevchenko State Art School (his classmates there included Alina Panova, Roman Turovsky and Yuri Makoveychuk) and the Kyiv Polygraphic Institute. He graduated from the Faculty of Book Design of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing. He is a Member of the National Union of Artists or Ukraine.