Celebrating the Winners of the IV Ivan Franko Competition
On August 27, the Central City Library named after Ivan Franko hosted a prestigious award ceremony for the winners of the IV municipal competition dedicated to the renowned Ukrainian writer.
This event was organized to celebrate the birthday of Ivan Franko, highlighting his importance in Ukrainian culture and literature.
In 2024, the competition attracted talented writers from various regions of Ukraine for the fourth time.
The winners of the competition included:
in the category of “Journalism”:
- Vyacheslav Kushnir (Odesa, “Pages of Newspapers and Facebook”);
- Eduard Amchislavsky (New York, “Actors, Cinema, Odesa…”);
in the category of “Prose”:
- Volodymyr Shevchenko-Vasylenko (Kremenchuk, “A Boat Drifting with Grief”);
- Iryna Feofanova (Irpin, “Stranger, Native”);
in the category of “Poetry”:
- Oksana Lozova (Lviv, “Time Does Not Pass”), who, together with her son Vasyl Lozovyi, who is currently defending Ukraine, published the collection “We Are!”;
- Yuriy Ostrovershchenko (Vradievka, Mykolaiv region, poetry collection “Whip”);
in the category of “Promotion of Ivan Franko’s Work”:
- Denys Rudyi (Odesa, second prize, script for the literary and musical concert “Withered Leaves”);
- Olesya Franco (Kalush, first prize, local history tour “Franko's City”);
A special award from the library was given to Vasyl Dobryansky, a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, known for his historical novels.
Nataliya Klykova, the director of the Centralized Library System for Adults, received a certificate of honor from the Odesa District Council.
To conclude the event, students and teachers from the Odesa Art School No. 1 named after Hilels and award-winning writer Svitlana Lukina performed.
On Ivan Franko’s birthday, library staff and fans of his work laid flowers at his monument.
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The literary competition was established in 2021 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence and the 165th anniversary of the birth of the great Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.
