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The Ivan Franko International Prize was awarded in Drohobych

On the occasion of the 165th anniversary of Ivan Franko’s birth, a solemn award ceremony of the Ivan Franko International Prize took place in Drohobych for the sixth time.

Leonid Tymoshenko, a professor at the Ivan Franko Drohobych Pedagogical University, was given the highest award in the humanities. Professor Tymoshenko received the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2021 for the monograph “Ruthenian religious culture of Wilno. Context of the epoch. Hubs. Literature and book-learning (the 16th to the first third of the 17th century)”.

In 2021, the Ivan Franko International Prize was also claimed by:

– collective monograph ed. by Alfredas Bumblauskas, Salvijus Kulevičius, Ihor Skochylias. «At Сultural Сrossroads: The Holy Trinity Church and Monastery in Vilnius» (presented by the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv);

– Oksana Kis (Ukraine) with the monograph “Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag” (presented by the Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA).

Congratulatory remarks were made by: Vitaliy Zahaynyi, Deputy Head of Lviv Regional State Administration; Mayor of Drohobych Taras Kuchma; Professor Mykola Lukyanchenko, Acting Rector of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University; Ihor Kurus, Director of the Ivan Franko Fund; Professor Volodymyr Bugrov –  rector of  KyivTaras Shevchenko National University.

On behalf of the Board of the Ivan Franko International Foundation, the rector of KNU Volodymyr Bugrov expressed his sincere gratitude and presented certificates to the members of the International Jury.

The organizers also thanked the benefactors who helped to form the award fund.

Throughout the evening, songs based on works by Ivan Franko were performed by the Honored Carpathian Song and Dance Ensemble of Ukraine “Verkhovyna” and Drohobych Municipal Chamber Choir “Lehenda”.

The event was dedicated to the cherished memory of the founder and chairman of the board of the Ivan Franko International Fund, the last grandson of Ivan Franko – Roland Franko.

We would like to mention that the Ivan Franko International Prize was established by Roland Franko in 2015 to encourage scholars from around the world to conduct relevant research in the social sciences and humanities and Ukrainian studies that express the humanistic, national, spiritual state-building meaning for the knowledge and approval of the scientific and cultural heritage of Ukraine in the global context and to promote the study of the creative, scientific and social activities of Ivan Franko.

Over the years of its existence the Ivan Franko International Prize was claimed by 107 scholars and 11 author groups from Ukraine, Austria, Italy, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, the USA, Finland, Spain, Georgia, Israel, Poland and Serbia.

Organizers of the event: Ivan Franko International Fund with the support of the European Union and the International Renaissance Foundation within the grant component of the EU4USociety project, in partnership with Drohobych City Council, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University and State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve “Naguyevychi”.

The books of the applicants for the Ivan Franko International Prize 2021 have been donated to the University Library (Video)

On Tuesday November 23, 2021 the director of the Franko Foundation Ihor Kurus handed over the books to the funds of the University Library during a meeting held at Drohobych University, reports the website of Drohobych City Council. Among the publications are research works from Canadian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian scholars and creative groups, which had been nominated for the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2021.

“Each year the Ivan Franko Foundation donates the works of the nominees for the Prize to university libraries in Vienna, Drohobych and Kyiv. We hope that with every year popularization of Ivan Franko worldwide will be acquiring new senses”, – stated Ihor Kurus.

Drohobych Mayor Taras Kuchma spoke about the importance of cooperation between the Fund, the University and the government:

“First of all, I would like to say that I am extremely proud of the fact that the Ivan Franko International Award Ceremony takes place in Drohobych. Every year this event gets a wider audience thus promoting not only Ivan Franko but also Drohobych in general. Our common task is to popularize Franko’s name and revive libraries. These should be creative spaces filled with readers. We jointly create revival work to ensure that Drohobych could have more prize winners in the future,” – emphasized the Mayor.

Professor Mykola Lukianchenko, the Acting Rector of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, also expressed the words of gratitude drawing attention to the importance of cooperation between the University and the Fund and of strengthening partner relations between the Univeristy and the city authorities because Drohobych is a university city.

Ihor Rozlutskyi, director of Drohobych University library, expressed hope that those books would form the basis for the creation of a scientific library in the city of Drohobych.

The event was also attended by Yuriy Vovk – Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation and this year’s prize winner Professor Leonid Tymoshenko.

We would like to remind you that every year on August 27, Franko’s birthday, Drohobych becomes the venue for the Ivan Franko International Prize Award Ceremony where the Prize is awarded for scientific work that is of significant contribution to the development of social and humanitarian disciplines, of international importance and is based on the principles of scientific understanding of historical and modern processes in the culture, politics and social life of Ukraine. This year’s Prize winner, representing Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, is Professor Leonid Tymoshenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences.

The Ivan Franko International Fund donates books to the library of Kyiv National University

Recently published books submitted for participation in the annual competition for the Ivan Franko International Prize have been donated to the Scientific Library of Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.

The ceremony took place on November 24, 2021. Traditionally the location for the event is the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Mykhailo Maksymovych Scientific Library.

Rector Volodymyr Bugrov, Director of the Center for the Study of the Creative Heritage of Ivan Franko at the Taras Shevchenko National University Maya Moser, Director of the Scientific Library Oleh Serbin and other librarians took part in the event. In his welcoming speech to the participants Volodymyr Bugrov said: “Distinguished scientific literature is not enjoying excessive popularity now. Hence, the efforts of representatives of the board and directors of the Ivan Franko International Fund are especially valuable as they combine efforts to assert the Ukrainian studies in the world. Thanks to your activities, not only reputable publications gain publicity, but also solid modern scientists receive an incentive for further research!”

Ihor Kurus (Executive Director of the Ivan Franko International Fund) and Olha Nyzhnyk (co-founder of the Ivan Franko International Fund, coordinator of the All-Ukrainian “Kamenyar’s Paths” Competition) presented this year’s publications set for the competition. The participants were happy to get acquainted with interesting and little-known facts about such books as:

monograph “Ruthenian religious culture of Wilno. Context of the epoch. Hubs. Literature and book-learning (the 16th to the first third of the 17th century)» by this year’s Prize-winner Leonid Tymoshenko is described by reviewers as “a scrupulous review of the two-hundred-year historiography on the position of the Metropolitanate of Kyiv in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of XVI-XVII centuries”;

publication “Apocrypha. Selected works. Four Conversations about Lesia Ukrainka”, compiled by Oksana Zabuzhko, a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy, Kyiv National University, based on conversations with His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, was noted as a” professional theological analysis of Lesia Ukrainka’s complex and deeply dramatic relationship with Christianity which comprise the nucleous of her mature heritage.”

Oksana Kis wrote a book “Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag” described by reviewers as an attempt “to restore a generalized portrait of a Ukrainian woman who suffered from political repression, who overcame Soviet prisons and correctional labor camps, which are among the worst in world history, with her extraordinary vitality (ability to survive)”;

publication “Andrei Sheptytsky: Biography” by Roman Horak is marked as “a true epic of time and relations, […] the way to Golgotha, which Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky was destined to go through with his people and his church”;

other books submitted for participation in the competition.

Later Ihor Kurus acquainted the audience with this year’s competition and noted: “I am glad to see among the permanent activists-benefactors of the Ivan Franko International Prize representatives of the University, especially Rector Volodymyr Bugrov and Director of the Scientific Library Oleh Serbin.” The solemn event continued with presentation of Certificates of Appreciation on behalf of the Board of the Ivan Franko International Fund.

At the end of the event, the participants discussed the plans for joint projects to further promote important scientific publications on Ukrainian studies in the non-academic environment, which can become a significant public asset.

The scientific and academic staff of Taras Shevchenko National University welcomed the efforts of the University administration to establish partnerships with leading public institutions and invited all the persons interested to get acquainted with the latest book publications of the collection of the Mykhailo Maksymovych Scientific Library!

For reference: The Ivan Franko International Fund is a non-governmental charitable organization. The Fund was initiated in 2015 by Roland Franko – a prominent Ukrainian writer’s grandson. The Fund’s mission includes the development of Ukrainian studies and social sciences and humanities, the promotion of Ivan Franko’s intellectual heritage, as well as the formation of a positive image of Ukraine worldwide.

According to the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University official website.

FrankoPrize-2021: nominees for the Award have been determined

The Expert Council of the Ivan Franko International Prize has completed its work. Forty three scientists from nine countries: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and USA sent their conclusions to the Organizing Committee. Members of the Expert Council evaluated scientific works according to three criteria: 1) the presence of innovative and original approaches in the research; 2) conceptuality, consistency and criticality of research; 3) the international context and level of research.

According to the results of the evaluation of scientific works, the highest scores were given to the following three works that have been nominated for the Prize in 2021:

«At Сultural Сrossroads: The Holy Trinity Church and Monastery in Vilnius»

COLLECTIVE MONOGRAPH, ed. Alfredas Bumblauskas, Salvius Kulevičius (Lithuania) and Igor Skočilyas (Ukraine), presented by the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine);

 

«Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag»

OKSANA KIS (Ukraine), presented by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA);

 

 

«Ruthenian religious culture of Wilno. Context of the epoch. Hubs. Literature and book-learning (the 16th to the first third of the 17th century)»

LEONID TYMOSHENKO (Ukraine), presented by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University (Drohobych, Ukraine).

 

The works of the nominees cover scientific disciplines: history, cultural studies, religious studies, sacred architecture, anthropology, literary studies, bibliology and Slavic studies.

Please keep in mind that 26 scientific papers were submitted for the Franco Prize this year.

For reference: The Ivan Franko International Prize has been awarded annually since 2016. Prize winners receive a cash award and a gold badge. The award ceremony takes place every year on August 27 – Ivan Franko’s birthday in his hometown of Drohobych.

The longlist of candidates for the Ivan Franko International Prize has been announced

The Ivan Franko International Foundation has announced candidates for the Prize of the same name, which is awarded to scientists whose work is a significant contribution to the development of social sciences and humanities, is of international importance and is based on scientific understanding of historical or contemporary processes in Ukrainian culture, politics and public life.

In 2021, 26 scientific papers from Austria, Canada, the United States and Ukraine were submitted for the Ivan Franko International Prize. The submission was initiated by eleven universities from Cambridge, Dnipro, Drohobych, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lutsk, Lviv, Melitopol as well as six scientific institutions and four past Prize winners.

The scientists from Canada, Lithuania and Ukraine will compete for the victory. Due to the aggression, the scientific works submitted from the Russian Federation were not allowed to participate in the competition.

Applicants’ monographs cover 20 scientific disciplines and are written in two languages – Ukrainian and English.

The name of the winner of the Ivan Franko International Prize will be announced at the end of June in Austria (at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna). The award ceremony will take place in Franko’s hometown, Drohobych, on August 27th – the 165th anniversary of his birth.

Applicants for the award:

  1. СOLLECTIVE MONOGRAPH ed. by Alfredas Bumblauskas, Salvijus Kulevičius, Ihor Skochylias. «At Сultural Сrossroads: The Holy Trinity Church and Monastery in Vilnius»
  2. СOLLECTIVE MONOGRAPH ed. by Oleksandr Hrytsenko, Nadiya Honcharenko, Inna Kuznetsova «Memory Culture in Contemporary Ukrainian Society: Transformation, Decommunization, Europeanization»
  3. OLENA BEREHOVA «Dialogue of Cultures: The Image of the Other in the Musical Universe»
  4. ROMAN HORAK «Andrei Sheptytsky. Biography»
  5. MYKOLA ZYMOMRYA & MARIA YAKUBOVSKA «Ivan Franko: projection in the present»
  6. OKSANA KIS «Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag»
  7. BOGDAN KOZAK «In the labyrinths stories Ukrainian Theater»
  8. OLENA KRAVCHENKO «Child care in Ukraine in the late 18th – early 20th centuries»
  9. VOLODYMYR MASLIYCHUK «Achievements and Illusions. Educational initiatives on the Lleft bank and Sloboda Ukraine second half of XVIII – beginning of the XIX-th century»
  10. ZORIANA MATSIUK «Phraseological dictionary of Western Polesie and neighbouring regions “Hovoryty yak medok varyty”
  11. IVAN MONOLATII «ZOO of Revolution. The Western Ukrainian statehood 1918-1923 and the theories of randomness in the 20th – early 21st centuries»
  12. SEAN PATTERSON «Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil»
  13. LIUDMYLA PIDKUIMUKHA «The Language of Lviv, or when it was spoken by the Batyars»
  14. IRYNA ROZDOLSKA «Literary phenomenon of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen: functioning and structure of generation»
  15. ANDRIY SOVA «Ivan Bobersky: socio-cultural, military-political and educational activities»
  16. MYKHAYLO STEPYKO «Ukrainian identity in a globalized World»
  17. MYKOLA TARASENKO «In search of antiquities from the gift of Khedive. Ancient Egyptian objects of the 21st Dynasty in the museums of Ukraine»
  18. LEONID TYMOSHENKO «Ruthenian religious culture of Wilno. Context of the epoch. Hubs. Literature and book-learning (the 16th to the first third of the 17th century)»
  19. NAZAR FEDORAK «Peak and departure of Ukrainian baroque. Seven approximations to Hryhoriy Skovoroda»
  20. MYKHAILO KHAY «Mykola Budnyk and kobzarizm»
  21. TETIANA SHAROVA “An author and text in social realism system: the nature of aesthetic conformism and the poetics of artistic compromise (based on the material of K. Gordienko’s works)”
  22. OLGA SHAF «Gender and psychological aspects of 20th century Ukrainian lyrics»
  23. HIS BEATITUDE SVIATOSLAV SHEVCHUK AND OKSANA ZABUZHKO «Four conversations about Lesya Ukrainka»
  24. IHOR YUDKIN-RIPUN «Phenomenology of Culture as the Methodology of Interpretation».

The Ivan Franko International Prize has been awarded annually since 2016. Prize winners receive a cash award and a gold badge.

The awarding ceremony takes place annually on August 27 – the birthday of Ivan Franko in his homeland.

We will remind you that in 2016, the Prize was won by Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Catholic Church. In 2017, the winners were Michael Moser, Professor of the University of Vienna, President of the International Ukrainian Association and Oleh Shabliy, Academician, Professor Emeritus of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The winners in 2018 were Professor of Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Ukrainian Free University (Munich) Yaroslava Melnyk and Associate Professor of the Department of Eastern European History at the Helsinki University Johannes Remy. In 2019, the award went to Doctor of Philology at the University of Milan, Maria Grazia Bartolini. In 2020 the Prize was won by Ihor Serdyuk, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian History of V. G.  Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University.

 

Acceptance of research papers for the Ivan Franko International Prize has started

On January 15, the Franko Foundation has started accepting  research papers for the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2021.

A research paper may be recommended for the Prize by an academic institution, a higher education institution of Ukraine and the countries with which Ukraine has diplomatic relations, or the previous winners of the Prize.

An obligatory condition for participation is filling in an electronic form on the official website of the Ivan Franko International Foundation.

The monographs should be published in 2018-2020 and have an ISBN.

Three printed copies of the research paper with the author’s autograph should be mailed to the Committee of the Prize (01054, Kyiv,  Volodymyrska St., 48a, of.15).

Applicant research papers should be of international importance, belong to social and humanitarian sciences and be based on scientific understanding of historical or contemporary processes in the culture, politics and public life of Ukraine.

Requirements for participation in the competition for the Ivan Franko International Prize can be found at http://frankoprize.com.ua/index.php/en/2016/02/01/603/

The Ivan Franko International Prize has been awarded annually since 2016. Prize winners receive a cash award and a gold badge.

The awarding ceremony takes place annually on August 27 – the birthday of Ivan Franko in his homeland.

We will remind you that in 2016, the Prize was won by Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Catholic Church. In 2017, the winners were Michael Moser, Professor of the University of Vienna, President of the International Ukrainian Association and Oleh Shabliy, Academician, Professor Emeritus of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The winners in 2018 were Professor of Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Ukrainian Free University (Munich) Yaroslava Melnyk and Associate Professor of the Department of Eastern European History at the Helsinki University Johannes Remy. In 2019, the award went to Doctor of Philology at the University of Milan, Maria Grazia Bartolini. In 2020 the Prize was won by Ihor Serdyuk, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian History of V. G.  Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University.

The acceptance of works for the Ivan Franko International Prize begins in January

From January 15, 2021, the Ivan Franko International Foundation will begin accepting works and supporting documents for the Ivan Franko International Prize.

The prize is awarded annually to scholars in the humanities and aims to encourage scholars from around the world to conduct relevant research in the field of social sciences and humanities and Ukrainian studies, expressing humanistic, national, spiritual, state-building sense  for acquirements and affirmation of scientific and cultural heritage of Ukraine within the global context.

Scientific papers (monographs) and supporting documents will be accepted from January 15 to March 1, 2021.

The obligatory electronic form will be posted on the official website of the Foundation.

Three copies of the scientific work in printed form are sent by post to the address of the Prize Committee (01054, Kyiv, Volodymyrska Street, 48A, office 15). Printed copies must be signed by the author of the scientific work.

The list of documents and terms of reference of the Ivan Franko International Prize can be found here

 

 

The name of the winner of Ivan Franko International Prize 2020

The fifth solemn ceremony of awarding the winner of the International Prize of Ivan Franko took place in Drohobych on Thursday, August 27, on the 164th anniversary of the birth of the genius of the Ukrainian nation Ivan Franko.

This year the highest award in the field of humanitaristics was received by IHOR SERDYUK, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian History of V. G.  Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University. The award was given for the monograph “The Young Adult: Child and Childhood in the Hetmanate of the Eighteenth Century.”

The head of the Ivan Franko International Foundation, Ihor Kurus, noted that, in addition to the monetary award, the winner of the award received a golden medal and a diploma. “This year, thanks to Maksym Kozytsky, Mykhailo Tsymbalyuk, Myroslav Khomyakov and Andriy Dulibyanyk, the award fund is 170,000 hryvnias. Of course, we have perspectives for growth, but we are firmly moving towards our goal and we want the Ivan Franko International Prize to be established as the most prestigious scientific award of modern works in the humanitaristics. ”

The chairman of the international jury the professor of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Doctor of Philology Yaroslav Garasym stressed that 19 works were submitted to the award in 2020, but only three of the monographs reached the final. “All three works of the nominees are marked by a high level of professionalism, depth of research and intellectual influence on the development of modern humanitaristics, and the winner is the research by quoting Ivan Franko “makes honour its author and our scientific literature.”

The award ceremony was attended by members of the international jury, nominees, scientists from Austria, Poland, Ukraine, government officials, the public figures and Ivan Franko’s family.

The head of the Lviv Regional State Administration Maksym Kozytskiy, the head of the Lviv Regional Council Oleksandr Hanushchyn, the mayor of Drohobych Taras Kuchma and the rector of Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University  Nadiya Skotna.

It is important to acknowledge that the 5th solemn ceremony of awarding the winner of the Ivan Franko International Prize was held with the support of the head of the Lviv Regional State Administration Maksym Kozytskiy and Drohobych Mayor Taras Kuchma. The event is organized by the Ivan Franko International Foundation in partnership with Drohobych City Council, Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University, “Nahujevychy” State Historical and Cultural Reserve, Lviv Society in Kyiv, International Foundation “Vidrodgennya”, group of companies “Zahydnadraservis”, Spa-hotel “RESPECT”, crowdfunding platform “Spilnokosht”, LLC Tandem” and recreation complex “Zalissya”.

The Nominees for the 2020 Ivan Franko International Prize Announced

38 scholars from Austria, Italy, Canada, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic selected three nominees for the 2020 Ivan Franko International Prize.

As provided for in the International Expert Council Regulations, the research papers and annotations to them were assessed according to the following three criteria: the availability of innovative and original approaches to research; research conceptuality, systematicity and criticality; international context and level of research.

Based on the assessment, the Expert Council members commend the following research papers to the International Jury for consideration:

  • Monography “Little Grown Up: Child and Childhood in the 18th century Hetmanate” by IHOR SERDYUK, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the Department of History of Ukraine of Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V.G. Korolenko (Ukraine);
  • Monography “Ivan Franko’s Bends of Spirit: The Conception of the World. Ideology. Literature” by YEVHEN NAKHLIK, Director of the Ivan Franko Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” (Ukraine);
  • Monography “Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine” by MAYHILL K. FOWLER, PhD, Professor of History at Stetson University (USA).

All three nominated works will be submitted to the International Jury, 12 members of which will choose this year’s winner of the Ivan Franko International Prize. The meeting of the International Jury will be held with the support of the Renaissance Foundation.

The V Award Ceremony will be held at Ivan Franko’s homeland – in Drohobych – on August 27, on Ivan Franko’s birthday.

It should be reminded that in 2020, 19 research papers have been submitted to win the Ivan Franko International Prize.

We will remind you that in 2016, the Prize was won by Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Catholic Church. In 2017, the winners were Michael Moser, Professor of the University of Vienna, President of the International Ukrainian Association and Oleh Shabliy, Academician, Professor Emeritus of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The winners in 2018 were Professor of Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Ukrainian Free University (Munich) Yaroslava Melnyk and Associate Professor of the Department of Eastern European History at the Helsinki University Johannes Remy. In 2019, the award went to Doctor of Philology at the University of Milan, Maria Grazia Bartolini (Italy).

 

The 2020 Ivan Franko International Prize: Top Contenders Announced

The Ivan Franko International Fund has announced contenders for the Prize of the same name, which is given to scholars whose works makea major contribution to the development of social and humanitarian sciences, are of international importance and are based on the scientific understanding of historical or contemporary processes in cultural, political and social life of Ukraine.

In 2020, 19 research papers have been submitted to the Ivan Franko International Prize. Scholars from Ukraine, Canada and the USA will compete for the victory. In conditions of the ongoing Russian aggression, research papers submitted from the Russian Federation were not allowed to participate in the competition.

The monographs are written in three languages ​​- Ukrainian, English, Russian – and cover more than 20 academic disciplines.

The initiators of the submission of contender for the 2020 Ivan Franko International Prize  became 10 higher educational institutions from Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Poltava, Odesa, Lviv, Drohobych, Ostroh, Vinnyitisa; 4 scientific institutions and 5 winners of the previous years.

Аmong the contenders:

  1. Olga Bogomolets , monography “Ukrainian home icon”, Ukraine.
  2. Andrii Boiko-Gagarin, monography “Coin counterfeiting in Central and Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times”, Ukraine.
  3. Anna Varava, monography “A cross-country fashion industry study and its application to eastern european countries, on example of ukraine”, Ukraine.
  4. Mykola Haliv, monography “Ukrainian Historical and Pedagogical Narrative (mid-ХІХth – late ХХth century): epistemological principles”, Ukraine.
  5. Harbuziuk M, monography “The image of Ukraine in the Polish theatre discourse of the nineteenth century: strategies and forms of representation”, Ukraine.
  6. Viktor Garkavko, monography Science about our daily bread (Agricultural Economy is the basis of the theoretical teaching of economics and organization of agricultural production), Ukraine.
  7. Druzhynets M., monography “Ukrainian Verbal Speech: Psycho- and Sociophonetic Aspects”, Ukraine.
  8. Andriy Zayarnyuk,  monography “Lviv’s Uncertain Destination: A City and Its Train Station from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev”, Canada.
  9. Archbishop Ihor Isichenko“War of the baroque metaphors: Peter Mohyla’s “stone” against Kassian Sakowycz’s “spyglass””, Ukraine.
  10. Vasyl Kostytsky, Olga Koban, monography “Restrictions on the Legislature and the Judiciary”
  11. Larysa Мasenko, monography “Language of Soviet Totalitarianism”, Ukraine.
  12. Ihor Nabytovych, monography “The Tree of Life of the Literary Family: Ivan Fedorovych, Volodyslav Fedorovych, Dariya Vikonska”, Ukraine
  13. Yevhen Nakhlik, monography “Ivan Franko’s Bends of Spirit: The Conception of the World. Ideology. Literature”, Ukraine.
  14. Ihor Pasichnyk, Petro Kralyuk, and Dmytro Shevchuk, “Ostroh Academy: history and present of the cultural and educational center. Encyclopedic edition.”, Ukraine.
  15. Larysa Semenko and Olexandr Lohinova, monography “TheVinnytsia Theatrethrough the Mirror of History (1910-1944)”, Ukraine.
  16. Igor Serdiuk, monography “Little Grown Up: Child and Childhood in the 18th century Hetmanate”, Ukraine.
  17. Tetyana Syvets, monography “Christian concepts in the literature of the Kyivan Rus (ХІ – ХІІІ centuries)”, Ukraine.
  18. Mayhill C. Fowler, monography  “Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine”, USA.
  19. Oles Fedoruk,  monography Kulish’s “Chorna Rada”: A Textual History, Ukraine.

The name of the winner of the Ivan Franko International Prize will be announced at the end of June 2020 in Vienna (Austria). The award will be held at Ivan Franko’s homeland in Drohobych, on the day of Ivan Franko’s – August 27.

The Prize winner is awarded with a cash award and a gold badge.

We will remind you that in 2016, the Prize was won by Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Catholic Church. In 2017, the winners were Michael Moser, Professor of the University of Vienna, President of the International Ukrainian Association and Oleh Shabliy, Academician, Professor Emeritus of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The winners in 2018 were Professor of Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Ukrainian Free University (Munich) Yaroslava Melnyk and Associate Professor of the Department of Eastern European History at the Helsinki University Johannes Remy. In 2019, the award went to Doctor of Philology at the University of Milan, Maria Grazia Bartolini (Italy).



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