Competition

The Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU) announces the 2021 literary and scientific publication competition. Winners of the competition will be awarded cash prizes from the Foundation, established on December 31, 1997 by the families of Stefan and Emilia Volyanik and Theodore and Sophia Schwabinski from Ohio, as well as from additional funds donated by the Foundation itself. The competition is held every year. Please send your works that first appeared in print in 2021 (not reprints) by June 30, 2022 to the office of the UVU Foundation with a cover letter to: Ukrainian Free University Foundation, 136 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The cover letter, signed by the author of the book (or the compiler of the collection), should contain a formal request to review the book... Read more

The jury consisting of Olga Volyanyk-Kuzyshyn, Ihor Nikolyuk, Larisa Zanyk and Hanna Dudyk made a decision to honor the participants of the literary and scientific competition named after the Volyanyk-Shwabinsky Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University for works published in 2020. The first prize was awarded to Roman Horak for the biography of Vasyl Stefanyk, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outstanding classic writer and public figure, a prominent master of the psychological novel, storyteller, world-class short story writer. The author's long-term research work made it possible to create a thorough publication about V. Stefanyk as a world novelist. The second prize was awarded to the following works: - The journalistic essay "Beast from the East" by Oleksandr Maslyanyk. The work talks about how Muscovites killed Ukrainians for centuries, covering themselves with mantras about a single, fraternal nation that... Read more

The jury of the Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU), consisting of Maria Polishchuk, Olga Volyanyk-Kuzyshyn, Leonid Rudnytskyi, Ihor Mirchuk, and Ihor Nikolyuk, made the final decision regarding awarding prizes to the laureates of the Literary and Scientific Competition named after Volyanik-Shwabinsky for works published in 2019. The first prize was awarded to Volodymyr Svyatnenko for the novel "Samurai. Ukrainian history". The author depicts the events of the Kholodnoyarsk Republic. Considerable attention is paid in the book to the analysis of the difference between the psychology of Ukrainians and Russians and the similarity of the mentality of Ukrainian Cossacks and Japanese samurai in the struggle for justice and independence of their state. The second prize was awarded to: - Myroslav Lazaruk for the novel in short stories "Chortoriy delusions-visions", in which the author vividly highlights the revelation of the talent of a unique ... Read more

The Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU) announces the Literary and Scientific Competition among publications of 2020. The winners of the competition will be awarded cash prizes from the Foundation, established on December 31, 1997 by the families of Stefan and Emilia Volyanik and Theodore and Sofia Schwabinski from Ohio in the USA, as well as from additional funds donated by the Foundation itself. The competition is held every year. Please send your works that first appeared in print in 2020 (not reprints) by June 30, 2021 to the office of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation: Ukrainian Free University Foundation, 136 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The goal is to recognize the best scientific works with Ukrainian studies topics and literary works of various genres, written in Ukrainian or ... Read more

In view of the exceptional circumstances related to the pandemic, the Ukrainian Free University Foundation is extending the period for submission of papers to the Volyanik-Shwabinsky Literary and Scientific Competition until August 31, 2020. The best scientific works on Ukrainian studies and literary works of various genres, written in Ukrainian or English, which were published in book format in Ukraine or in the diaspora in 2019, can be submitted to the competition. Works or compilations, where the majority are reprinted materials, as well as works in which specifically members of the FUU Board of Directors or members of the jury were involved, are not allowed. Only printed works sent by the authors are considered. The competition also accepts master's theses and doctoral theses of graduates... Read more

ПРАВИЛЬНИК Літературно-Наукового Фонду “Воляник-Швабінський” Фундації УВУ в Ню Йорку Дата 05/16/2020 1. Назва Фонду: Літературно-Науковий Фонд «Воляник-Швабінський». 2. Фундатори: Стефан і Емілія Воляники, Теодор і Софія Швабінські. 3. Локація Фонду: Фундація Українського Вільного Університету з осідком в Ню Йорку. 4. Сума Фонду: 100,000.00 дол. (сто тисяч долярів). 5. Призначення щорічних конкурсів Фонду – відзначити кращі наукові праці з українознавчою тематикою та літературні твори різних жанрів, написаних українською або англійською мовою, що були опубліковані книжковим форматом в Україні чи в діяспорі у році перед роком переведення Конкурсу. Не допускаються праці чи збірники де більшість становлять матеріал передрукований і також праці. до … Read more