Recognition of Winners of the IV Ivan Franko Competition

On August 27, the Central Library named after Ivan Franko held a ceremony to honor the winners of the IV municipal literary competition named after Ivan Franko. 

This event was dedicated to the birthday of the prominent Ukrainian writer, philosopher, and public figure I. Ya. Franko.

In 2024, the competition, which included participants from various regions of Ukraine, is being held 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 Drifts Full of Grief»);
- Iryna Feofanova (Irpin, «Stranger, Native»);

in the category of «Poetry»: 
- Oksana Lozova (Lviv, «Time Doesn't Pass»), together with her son Vasyl Lozovyi, who is currently defending Ukraine, wrote the collection «We Are!»;

- Yuriy Ostrovershenko (Vradievka, Mykolaiv region, poetry collection «Whip»);

in the category of «Promotion of Ivan Franko's Creative Work»: 
- Denys Rudyi (Odesa, second prize, script for the literary-musical concert «Withered Leaves»), 
- Olesya Franco (Kalush, Frankivsk region, first prize, local history tour «Franko's City»).

A special award from the Franko Library was presented to Vasyl Dobryansky, a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, an author of historical, adventure, and detective novels from Ivano-Frankivsk. 

The Honorary Certificate from the Odesa District Council was awarded to Natalia Klykova, director of the Centralized Library System for Adults.

To conclude the event, students and teachers from Odesa Art School No. 1 named after Hilels and award-winning writer Svitlana Lukina performed for the audience. 

On Ivan Franko's birthday, library staff and admirers of the writer's 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, philosopher, and public figure I. Franko.