Vasil Zemlyak was born on 23 April 1923 in Konyushevka, Podolia Governorate, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Konyushivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Derzost (1972), Vavilon XX (1979) and Doch Strationa (1964). He died in March 1977 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].