Last week the Ivan Ohiyenko (a prominent religious and public figure of Ukraine, also known as Metropolitan Ilarion of Canada’s Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, born in Brusyliv) Republican Prize Committee decided in Zhytomyr to choose its 2002 winners. In the field of art, the prize was awarded to Yaroslav Babuniak, a Ukrainian diaspora representative, director of the Homin Choir in Manchester (Britain), and a singer and bandura player; in the field of education to Hennady Vozniuk, Anatoly Zahorodny, and Tamara Slovzhenko, authors of the most up-to-date Financial Dictionary in the Ukrainian language; in the field of research to the Lviv-based scholar Levko Poliuha and the Kyiv-based historian Volodymyr Liakhovetsky; in the field of literature to a Lutsk poet Vasyl Slabchuk for the poems written in the past few years; and in the field of public, political and spiritual activity to Vitaly Karpenko, former editor of the newspaper Vechirny Kyiv and people’s deputy of Ukraine.
As Oleksiy Opanasiuk, deputy chairman of the aforesaid committee, chairman of the National League of Ukrainian Writers oblast organization, told The Day, this year’s prizes were awarded in the heated competition of a total 19 nominees, Valery KOSTIUKEVYCH, The Day, reports.
