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The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, awarded eight laureates the 2018 Taras Shevchenko National Prize, in the categories of literature, journalism, music, visual arts and cinematic art,” the press service of Petro Poroshenko reported.
The Taras Shevchenko Committee selected the winners of the award.
“I sincerely thank the members of the Shevchenko Committee for the work you have done to determine the winners. After all, almost seventy nominees applied for this high state prize and only eight of them succeeded. I congratulate you on the decision to award the National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine in 2018. The signed decree shows that I supported it,” Poroshenko said.
Artist Pavlo Makov, was awarded for his art project, Lost Paradise. Author Serhii Plokhii, was awarded for the book, The Gates of Europe. Director Volodymyr Tykhyi, and camera operators Yaroslav Pilunskyi, Serhii Stetsenko and Yuri Gruzinov, who were part of the creative association Babylon 13, were awarded for the series of documentary films about the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. Composer, Victoria Poleva, and writer, Emma Andiyevska were also awarded.
The Taras Shevchenko National Prize amounts to 240,000 hryvnias.
Shevchenko is a famous Ukrainian poet, artist, writer, and political activist. He advocated for Ukraine’s independence, long before the country actually became independent. Even though he could not live to see a free Ukraine, his fervent patriotism, dedication to his country, and his contributions to Ukrainian literature, art, poetry, culture, language, politics and society, made him a celebrated figure around the country even today.
Yesterday, Ukrainians celebrated his birthday.
