The International Experts Council has determined five scientific works, claiming to win Ivan Franko International Prize.

The members of the Expert Council have recommended the Jury to consider the monograph of Blessed Lubomyr Husar, The monograph Andrey Sheptytsky Metropolitan Galician (1901-1944) a forerunner of ecumenism and The monograph “From Deportation to Deportation. Social and Political Life of the Ukrainians of Kholmshchyna and Pidlishia (1915-1947) Reserch. Memories. Documets by authors  Yuriy Makar,  Mychailo Hornyi, Vitaliy Makar, Anatoliy Saliuk – co-author of Volume I  in the nomination “For significant personal contribution to development of social and human sciences.”

The works to be submitted to the Jury for consideration in the nomination “For significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian Studies” are the following: : Tetiana Ohneva, The monograph “Theater and Cinema in the Context of Art Concepts of the Early Twentieth Century”; Yevhen Nakhlik,  The monograph “Ivan Kotliarevskyi’s Travestied World: Text-Intertext-Context”; Vasyl Chernets and  Valery Bitayev, “Ukrainian Encyclopedia of Ethno Art Studies and Ethnocultural” in five Volumes.

In accordance with the Provision, the members of the Expert Council were governed by their personal knowledge and compared the scientific works claiming to win the Prize under the following criteria during determination of the nominees: availability of innovative and sophisticated approaches in the research; conceptual, systematic, and critical view of the research; international context and level of the scientific research.

At present, all five works have been submitted for the consideration by the International Jury and the interdisciplinary scientific discussion will take place in Vienna on August 4-5, within which the Jury shall determine the Laureates of the Prize.

Let us remind that awarding of winners will be held on August 27, 2016 at homeland of Ivan Franko in c. Drohobych.