The laureates of the Shevchenko Prize for 2022 and 2023 were awarded in Borodyanka. PHOTO
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In Borodyanka, Kyiv region, laureates of the National Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko for the last two years – 2022 and 2023. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram The award ceremony took place on August 20 near the monument to Shevchenko, who was shot by the Russian occupiers, the press service of the ICIP reported. The chairman of the Shevchenko Prize Committee, a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Yevgeny Nyschuk explained that due to the ongoing war, the award ceremony was conducted ascetically and without announcing the venue in advance. “Given the daily attacks of the enemy, this year’s commemoration of the Shevchenko laureates will be held ascetically, but in an act of indomitability. We chose this format in order not to expose people to danger. For the same reason, the place, date and time were not announced publicly,” he said Nyschuk The Shevchenko Prize was awarded in Borodyanka. Photo: MKIP “The monument to Shevchenko in Borodyanka, under which the laureates of the Shevchenko Prize were awarded today, made a very strong impression on me. I saw it up close for the first time, and it blows with such force that it is difficult to find the right words. Wounded, but unbroken ; looks now not in front of him, but down – in the eyes of each of us. The orphans ran away from this look, to be honest,” one of the laureates, writer and director Iryna Tsylyk, later shared her impressions of the ceremony. At the ceremony, the Shevchenko Prize for 2022 was awarded to: in the nomination “Filmmaking” – director Kateryna Gornostay for the film “Stop-Earth”; in the nomination “Literature and Art Studies” – Hryhoriy Hrabovych for the series of articles “Rethinking Pavlo Tychyna – Rethinking Ukrainian Modernism”; in the “Literature” nomination – Tamara Gorikha Zernya for the novel “Dotsia”; in the nomination “Visual art” – artist Nikita Kadan for the personal exhibition “Stone hits stone” and Tiberia Silvashi for the installation “Wings”; in the nomination “Journalism, journalism” – Mykola Ryabchuk for the book “Nationalist’s Lexicon and Other Essays”; in the nomination “Theatrical art” – Tamara Trunova, Natalka Vorozhbyt, Yuriy Larionov, Andrii Isayenko and Valeriya Khodos for the play “Bad Roads” of the Kyiv Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy on the Left Bank of the Dnipro. The Shevchenko Prize was awarded in Borodyanka. Photo: MKIP The Shevchenko Prize for 2023 was awarded to: in the category “Film Arts” – director Iryna Tsylyk for the documentary “The Earth is Blue, Like an Orange”; in the “Literature” nomination – poet Kateryna Kalytko for the book of poems “Order of Silent Women”; in the nomination “Musical art” – Taras Kompanichenko, Maksym Berezhniuk, Severyn Danileyko, Yaroslav Krysko, Serhiy Okhrimchuk, performers of the band “Horea Kozatska” – for the audio album “Songs of the Ukrainian Revolution”; in the nomination “Literary Studies and Art Studies” – Mykhailo Nazarenko for the book “Except for “Kobzar”. An Anthology of Ukrainian Literature. 1792-1883″ in two parts; in the nomination “Journalism, journalism” – Vitaly Portnikov for journalistic articles and speeches of recent years. Scandal surrounding the 2023 Shevchenko Prize In 2023, for the first time in the history of the Shevchenko Prize, on March 9, Shevchenko’s birthday, the names of the laureates were not made public, and the corresponding presidential decree announcing the results was not published. Instead, Zelenskyi’s press service spread the news about his meeting with cultural and artistic figures on the occasion of the 209th anniversary of Shevchenko’s birthday. The award was presented under the monument to Shevchenko. Photo: Iryna Tsilyk / Facebook On March 10, the head of the Makarov Committee published a post on his Facebook page that they decided to supplement the existing nominations with an additional contest “For contribution to victory” and to announce the previously determined laureates and new ones together on May 22, the day of Kobzar’s reburial. The next day, March 11, the Taras Shevchenko National Award Committee of Ukraine still published a statement naming the 2023 laureates. Then the winners were named only in part of the categories: “Literature”, “Publicism, journalism”, “Literature and art studies”, “Music art” and “Film art”. The award was presented under the monument to Shevchenko. Photo: Iryna Tsilyk / Facebook Since then, the names of the laureates of the Shevchenko Prize 2023 were known, but one decree never appeared. During this time, the chairman of the committee Yuriy Makarov resigned, followed by the entire committee. In May, Zelenskyi appointed ex-Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyschuk as the head of the committee. On July 28, the president issued a decree with the names of the laureates for 2023 and approved the new composition of the Shevchenko Committee. The new nomination “For contribution to victory”, which caused the scandal, was decided to be awarded next year.
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