[1] In 1934 Antonych received third prize honours from the Ivan Franko Society of Writers and Journalists for his work Three Signet Rings.

[2] Antonych was born and raised in the Lemko village of Nowica where his father, Vasyl, was a parish priest.

[3] From 1928 to 1933, Antonych was a student at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, where he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy (specializing in Polish philology).

In order to help finance his chosen career of professional writer, he occasionally worked as an editor for journals such as Dazhboh and Karby.

[4] In his poetry, he combines the principles of imagism with a life-affirming paganism inspired by Lemko folklore.