Roman Horak (Author)
Roman Dmytrovytsch Horak ( Ukrainian Роман Дмитрович Горак ; born January 17, 1942 in Horodok , Generalgouvernement ) is a Ukrainian writer, literary scholar and museum director.
Life
Horak studied from 1959 to 1964 at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Ivan Franko University in Lviv .
Roman Horak has authored more than 300 studies and articles on Ivan Franko and other writers since 1993 and director of the National Ivan Franko literary and Memorial Museum ( Львівський національний літературно-меморіальний музей Івана Франка ) in Lviv . Since 1988 Horak has been a member of the National Association of Writers of Ukraine .
Honors
Horak has received numerous honors, including the Ivan Franko Literature Prize and the honorary title of "Honored in the Culture of Ukraine". In 2016 he was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize, the Ukrainian State Prize for Culture.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the museum ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ^ A b Biography of Roman Horak in the "Library of Ukrainian Literature"; accessed on September 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Biography of Roman Horak on the official website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee; accessed on September 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Horak, Roman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Горак, Роман Дмитрович (Ukrainian); Horak, Roman Dmytrowytsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer, literary scholar and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horodok , General Government |