Findings from archives about masters
As part of the Ukrainian Book program, the Central State Archive Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine (CSAMLAU) in cooperation with Kyiv publishing house KLIO prepared reference book Documentary Treasury of the Shevchenko Prize Winners, whose release was timed to the 200th birth anniversary of the Bard of Ukraine.
The book provides a brief biographical data on 120 outstanding Ukrainian creators, whose personal collections are currently kept by the CSAMLAU. The publication contains also rare archival photographs of famous Ukrainian writers, composers, musicians, artists, actors and filmmakers, titles of books nominated for the prize, literary and musical works with autographs, drawings, sketches, etc.
The book opens with foreword by Chair of the Shevchenko National Prize Committee Borys Oliinyk. Addressing the reader, this poet and academician says, in particular: “The time flows as a river. We are only variables, and pass on, too. The only eternal thing is the Word, as it is with the God, and comes from the God! This collection, entitled Documentary Treasury of the Shevchenko Prize Winners, offers its reader information about some very interesting facts and events related to more than half a century of the Shevchenko National Prize’s existence. Globally, such prizes which celebrate achievements of national cultures are rare.”
The book includes rare archival documents related to life and work of the prize’s winners, such as Pavlo Tychyna, Mykhailo Stelmakh, Volodymyr Sosiura, Andrii Malyshko, Oles Honchar and many other classics of Ukrainian literature.
The archive museum’s staff found valuable texts and photographs in its collections, allowing them to publish a thorough description of the huge archive of the Shevchenko National Prize Committee, collected by the CSAMLAU over the recent decades, and trace the chronology of the award.
