National Association of Writers of Ukraine

The Liebermann villa . Since 1953 the seat of the association

The National Association of Writers of Ukraine ( Ukrainian Національна спілка письменників України / Nazionalna spilka pysmennykiw Ukraiiny ) was founded in 1934 as the professional association of writers in Ukraine .

history

The Union of Writers of the USSR of Ukraine was founded in 1934 at the 1st National Congress of Soviet Writers on June 16 ( Kharkiv ) and August 12, 1934 in Kiev .

The Writers ' Union of Ukraine was established in 1991 at the 10th Congress of the Socialist Party on April 19, 1991 as independent from the Writers' Union of the USSR and in succession to the Soviet Writers' Union of Ukraine from 1934 and the Union of Writers of Ukraine from 1959. The association received the status of a "National" Association of Writers of Ukraine in 1997.

Medal of Honor of the Writers' Union

Chairperson

The chairman of the Writers' Union has been the writer Mychailo Sydorschewskyj ( Михайло Олексійович Сидоржевський ), born in 1958, since November 29, 2014 . His predecessors in office (from 1973 to 1991 "First Secretary") were:

• 1934-1934 Ivan Kulyk
• 1934–1936 Anton Sentschenko ( Антон Григорович Сенченко ; 1898–1937)
• 1936–1937 Ivan Mykytenko ( Іван Кіндратович Микитенко ; 1897–1937)
• 1938–1941 Oleksandr Kornijtschuk
• 1943-1946 Maksym Rylskyi
• 1946–1953 Oleksandr Kornijtschuk
• 1953-1959 Mykola Bashan
• 1959–1971 Oles Honchar
• 1971–1973 Yury Smolytsch
• 1973–1979 Wassyl Kosatschenko ( Василь Павлович Козаченко ; 1913–1995)
• 1979–1986 Pavlo Sahrebelnyj
• 1986-2001 Jurij Muschketyk
• 2001–2011 Volodymyr Jaworiwskyj
• 2011–2014 Viktor Baranow ( Ві́ктор Фе́дорович Бара́нов ; 1950–2014)
• 2014–2014 Oleksandr Boschko ( Олександр Іванович Божко ; * 1946)
• since 2014    Mychailo Sydorschewskyj ( Михайло Олексійович Сидоржевський ; * 1958)

Seat

The headquarters of the association is located in the Liebermann villa in downtown Kiev on Wulyzja Bankowa ( Вулиця Банкова ) No. 2. The association organizes 200 to 250 different creative activities in the villa every year, such as literary evenings, award ceremonies and training events for young authors.

Web links

Commons : National Writers' Union of Ukraine  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Writers' Union (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About us - Website of the Writers' Union , accessed on October 18, 2014 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Hungry authors with orange scarfs ; last accessed on May 28, 2014