Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna is an oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. As is the case with most other oblasts of Ukraine this region has the same name as its administrative center – which was renamed by the Soviet Ukrainian authorities after the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko on 9 November 1962. Population: 1,361,109 .
Ivano-Frankivsk, formerly Stanyslaviv, is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Ivano-Frankivsk hosts the administration of Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada. Its population is 237,855.
Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
Taras Protsyuk was a Ukrainian TV cameraman working for Reuters, who was killed during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Sofia Yuriyivna Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian writer and translator. The wife of Andriy Bondar, Ukrainian writer.
Taras Voznyak is a Ukrainian culturologist, political scientist, editor-in-chief and founder of Independent Cultural Journal "Ї", director of the Lviv National Art Gallery, laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize (2021).
Dead Rooster or Mertvy Piven was a Ukrainian rock band that formed in 1989. The first concert was given in 1990 at the first Vyvykh festival. Their debut album Eto recorded in 1991, at the end of the Chervona Ruta festival, where the group took first prize in the category of performers art songs. Dead Rooster began as an acoustic band. During the second half of the 1990s, they evolved into a grunge/art-rock band, though their music can't be described by one particular style. Dead Rooster has changed personnel several times.
Contemporary Ukrainian literature refers to Ukrainian literature since 1991, the year of both Ukrainian independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union. From that year on, censorship in the Soviet Union ceased to exist and writers were able to break openly with the official socialist realism style of art, music, and literature. Principal changes had taken place in Ukrainian literature already under Perestroika (1985) and especially after the Chernobyl disaster. Some researchers consider that modern Ukrainian literature was born during the 1970s and founded by Soviet dissidents from the sixties generation.
Yuriy Vynnychuk is a Ukrainian journalist, writer and editor.
Krytyka is a Ukrainian intellectual monthly/bi-monthly magazine and publishing house dedicated to in-depth analysis of current affairs, culture and book reviews in Ukraine and the region. Krytyka was founded in 1997 by the Harvard professor of Ukrainian literature George Grabowicz. The magazine is a partner of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, University of St. Gallen, and an exclusive partner of The New York Review of Books in Ukraine. Krytyka receives support from Western and Ukrainian foundations for its various projects . Krytyka is a member of Eurozine, a network of European cultural magazines, and sees its role in mediating between Ukrainian and global intellectual elites. Since 2014, it is also available in English.
Kateryna Babkina is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021).
Volodymyr Osypovych Shukhevych – was a Ukrainian public figure, writer, ethnographer and teacher.
Ukrainian gymnasium №1 is a general educational establishment; gymnasium in Ivano-Frankivsk. A participant of the All-Ukrainian contest “The 100 Best Schools of Ukraine” (2006). Due to the results of ZNO in Ukrainian Language and Literature in 2008, 2009 and 2015, it took the first place among the schools of Ukraine.
Stepan Vasylovych Protsiuk is a contemporary Ukrainian novelist, essayist and poet.
Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.
Osip-Roman Iyosafatovych Sorokhtei was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and art teacher.
Mykhailo Stelmakh was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and playwright. Member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor. Father of playwright Yaroslav Stelmakh. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 6th-10th convocations.
The Stanislav phenomenon was a group of writers in the 2000s who defined themselves according to the name of their city: Stanislawow in Polish, Stanislou in German, and Stanislaviv in Ukrainian. The term denotes the artists and writers living in Ivano-Frankivsk who were affiliated with the Western postmodernism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The writers include Yuri Andrukhovych, Halyna Petrosanyak, Yuri Izdryk, Volodymyr Yeshkiliev, and Taras Prokhasko.
