The Ivan Franko International Prize Committee has completed reception of the scholarly paper submitted for the contest and has commenced the following stage of expert evaluation, which is to last till 10 May 2024.

The Ivan Franko International Prize Committee has withdrawn the scholarly paper by Professor Tinatin Mshvidobadze (Georgia) from the contest inasmuch the submitted documents do not comply with the requirements of the Provision on the Prize.

The Committee has resolved to admit the scholarly paper by the Candidate of Philology, Docent of the Ukrainian Studies Department of Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy” Olena Ilina, which arrived at the Fund on 5 March 2024 due to the lack of the internet access in the academic institution pursuant to the shelling of Kharkiv by muscovite invaders.

The Prize Committee has launched the procedure of submitting the following 12 papers for expert evaluation:

JOANNA GETKA, Habilitated Doctor, Professor of the University of Warsaw and JOLANTA DARCZEWSKA, PhD, monograph “Rus’ Abducted? Russia’s War over the Identity of Ukraine”, Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, 2022.

SUBMITTED BY: The University of Warsaw Press (Poland).

VASYL GRESHCHUK, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, academic publication “Hutsul Dialect Vocabulary and Phrasemics in the Ukrainian Belletristic Language. Dictionary” (Vol.1. А – М 2019; Vol.2. Н – Я 2020; Appendix. Onymic vocabulary. 2023).

SUBMITTED BY: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ukraine).

OLENA ILINA, Candidate of Philology, Docent of the Ukrainian Studies Department of Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”, monograph “Archetypal Concepts of Ukrainian Artistic Language Thinking”. – Kharkiv: I.S. Ivanchenko Publishing House, 2021. – 338 p.

SUBMITTED BY: Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy” (Ukraine).

MYKOLA ILNYTSKYI, Doctor of Philology, Merited Professor of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, monograph “Ivan Franko: The Antinomy of Nature and Spirit. Explorations and Interpretations”, Lviv: Apriori Publishing House, 2023, 264 p.

SUBMITTED BY: Ivan Franko International Prize Laureate Mykola Lehkyi (Ukraine).

VITALIY MYKHAILOVSKIY, Doctor of History, Docent of the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, monograph “History, Language, Geography: Toponyms of Medieval Podillya”, Kyiv: Tempora, 2021, 412 p.

SUBMITTED BY: Ivan Franko International Prize Laureate Professor Leonid Tymoshenko (Ukraine).

IVAN MONOLATII, Doctor of Political Science, Candidate of History, Professor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, monograph “Ethnoperipherality: participaton of subjects of Western Ukrainian ethnopolitical sphere in interethnic interaction, interstate conflicts and culture of memory”, Drohobych: Posvit, 2022, 576 р.

SUBMITTED BY: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ukraine).

IHOR NABYTOVYCH, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland), monograph “Gloria et sacrum. Historical Prose of the Ukrainian Emigration”, Lublin, UMCS Publishing House, 2022, 230 p.

SUBMITTED BY: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland)

OLEH RAZYHRAYEV, Doctor of History, Professor of the World History Department of the Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (Lutsk), monograph “The World Behind Bars. Penitentiary System in Volyn and Galicia in 1918–1939”, Drohobych: Kolo, 2023, 688 p. 

SUBMITTED BY: the administration of the Nahuyevychi State Historical and Cultural Reserve (Ukraine).

IRYNA SMETANA, Candidate of Philology, Docent of Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics and ANTONINA TYMCHENKO, Candidate of Philology, Docent of Kharkiv I.P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts, monograph “In Hidden Thoughts: Motives in the works of Volodymyr Svidzinsky”, Kharkiv: Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk, 2021, 380 p.

SUBMITTED BY: Kharkiv I.P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts (Ukraine).

OLEKSIY SOKYRKO, Candidate of History, Docent of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, monograph “Cossack Mars: the State and the Army of the Cossack Hetmanate During the Military Revolution, 1648-1764”, Kyiv: Tempora, 2023, 912 p. 

SUBMITTED BY: Ivan Franko International Prize Laureate Professor Ihor Serdiuk (Ukraine).

FELIKS SHTEINBUK, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Comenius University (Slovakia), monograph “Under “the Sign of Sabaoth”, or “Where…” Ulianenko is”, Kyiv: Dmitry Burago Publishing House, P. 1, 2020, 396 p.; P. 2, 2022, 392 p.

SUBMITTED BY: Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University (Ukraine).

OLHA SHUMILINA, Doctor of Arts, Professor of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, monograph “The Suprasl Canticles of the End of the 17th Century – a Monument of Basilian Church Music”, (in 3 vols and 2 books, Lviv, 2022. Book 1, 960 p.; Book 2, 984 p.)

SUBMITTED BY: the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (Ukraine).

In previous years, the awards were given to Cardinal of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Lubomyr Husar, Professor Michael Moser (University of Vienna), Academician Oleh Shabliy (Ivan Franko National University in Lviv), Professor Yaroslava Melnyk (the Ukrainian Catholic University), Associate Professor Maria Grazia Bartolini (Eastern European University in Helsinki), Professor Ihor Serdyuk (Department of the History of Ukraine, Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V.G. Korolenko), Professor Leonid Tymoshenko (Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University), Head of the Franko Studies Department of the Ivan Franko Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mykola Lehkyi.