Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of 717,500. It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Lviv also hosts the administration of Lviv urban hromada. It was named after Leo I of Galicia, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia.
Lina Vasylivna Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine's foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry.
Velyki Mosty is a city in Chervonohrad Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) of Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Velyki Mosty urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 6,286.
Nina Mytrofanivna Matviienko was a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine.
Solomiia Dmytrivna Pavlychko was a Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, feminist, and translator. She is considered as one of the pioneering scholars to introduce gender studies and feminist analysis to Ukraine.
Iryna Onufriyivna Kalynets was a Ukrainian poet, writer, activist and Soviet dissident during the 1970s. Kalynets was the wife of another Soviet dissident, Ihor Kalynets.
Iryna Dmytrivna Farion was a Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014 as a member of Svoboda. She was a professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language at Lviv Polytechnic's Institute of Humanitarian and Social Sciences.
Viktoriia Yuriyivna Amelina, later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.
Irena Turkevycz-Martynec was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and came to Canada, to Winnipeg, in 1949. She was a Prima donna in the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and performed in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and many other European cities during her long and storied career.
Haska Shyyan is a Ukrainian writer and translator. She was born and raised in the western city of Lviv and studied classical philology at Lviv University. Her debut novel Hunt, Doctor, Hunt! was published in 2014. Much of the book was written on her mobile phone when Shyyan was ill. Her next novel Behind the Back won the EU Prize for Literature.
Sofia Yablonska-Oudin was a Ukrainian-French travel writer, photographer, and architect. She was born in Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, but lived itinerantly, her family moved to Russia during the World War I and moved back to Western Ukraine in 1921. In the late 1920s she emigrated to Paris. In Paris, Yablonska became a journalist and began travelling the world; she later used these experiences to write three books. Yablonska retired to Noirmoutier in 1950 with her husband and three children and became an architect.
Natalka Volodymyrivna Sniadanko is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and translator. She won the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize in 2011.
Olena Ivanivna Stepaniv was an Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian soldier, public figure and economist. She is popularly known as the first female officer in the Ukrainian army.
Oksana Zinaida Mykhailivna Liaturynska was an artist, sculptor, writer, poet and public figure. Liaturynska signed her works either by her own name or by pen names: Oksana Pechenih, Roksana Vyshnevetska and Yeronim.
Halyna Vasylivna Pahutiak is a Ukrainian writer known for her fantasy fiction. Combining "magic realism's hermetic style with popular genres and vampire themes", Pahutiak's stories employ "fantastic metamorphoses, maternal female visions, and infantile dreams". Her novel The Servant of Dobtomyl (2006) won the 2010 Shevchenko National Prize in Literature.
Vira Ageyeva is a Ukrainian literary critic and philologist. In 1990, she and other scholars established the first feminist seminars in the country as an initiative of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and she was a co-founder of the Kyiv Institute for Gender Studies in 1998. She was honored as a joint winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the Petro Mohyla Prize, an award given by Academic Council of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 2008.
Maria Oleksandrivna Halych was a Ukrainian writer, the author of impressionistic prose. Since 1920 a member of the Kyiv literary group ASPYS, Lanka - Mars.
Yuliya Musakovska is a Ukrainian poet and translator. She is the author of poetry collections such as “Exhaling, Inhaling” (2010), “Masks” (2011), “Hunting for Silence” (2014), “Men, Women and Children,” and “The God of Freedom” (2021) as well as two poetry chapbooks released in Poland and Sweden. Her poems have been translated into over thirty languages and widely published across the globe. A full length English translation of Musakovska's poetry, The God of Freedom, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2024.
Mariia Yaremak is a Ukrainian composer, pianist, arranger and music editor. She has taken part in several hundred concerts, international and national projects, and worked with artists, orchestras and on films in Europe, America, and Ukraine. Since 24 February 2022, she has performed and co-organised more than 40 charity concerts in support of Ukraine in different countries. At her events, she performs original music and arrangements of ancient ethnic Ukrainian melodies in a fantasy style. The works she created for artistic collaborations during the war have received several million views on social media.
Oksana Petrivna Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian poet, professor and writer who is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize, and member of PEN Ukraine. She primarily writes poetry and fiction in Ukrainian, with additional work on blogs for the feminist website Povaha.
