The Ivan Franko International Prize Committee has ceased accepting scholarly publications for the Prize, which is awarded to celebrate the scholars whose works constitute a significant contribution to the development of social and/or humanitarian studies, bear international value and are based on the principles of scholarly reception of historical or modern processes in culture, politics and public life of Ukraine.

Within the determined period, the International Fund received 12 monographs by scholars from 4 countries (Georgia, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine). The submissions were initiated by 11 higher education institutions from Warsaw, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyshyniv, Lublin, Lviv and Kharkiv, 1 research institution and 3 Prize laureates from previous years.

The name of the Ivan Franko International Prize laureate will be announced in Ivan Franko’s hometown Drohobych on 27 August on his 168th birthday anniversary.

Among the nominees for the Ivan Franko International Prize 2024 are:

TINATIN MSHVIDOBADZE, Associate Professor of Gori State University (Georgia), monograph “The Translation History of Ukrainian Literature and Efficiency of Computer Programs in the Creative Processes”, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing 2022, 117 p.

SUBMITTED BY: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (Moldova).

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).

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).

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).

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)

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.