[1] Liudmyla Skyrda is a well-known Ukrainian poet, scholar, literary critic, specialist in literature, culture expert, translator, member of the Ukrainian Writers Guild, laureate of literary awards named after Andriy Malyshko, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ivan Koshelivets, Honoured Arts Creator of Ukraine.

She began active cultural and creative activity aimed on establishing friendly contacts with the Ukrainian diaspora, Austrian intellectuals and mass-media, delivered lectures on Ukrainian literature, conducted programs on Austrian channel Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), devoted to Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Yevhen Pluzhnyk and others.

There she published two more volumes of poetry, The Elegies of Rhine (1995) and In the Embraces of Jugendstil (1996), the presentations of which were attended by the artistic community and members of the diplomatic corps of Bonn.

From 1997 to 2000, she lived and worked in Kyiv, where her poems “Ad Astra” and "Rose Angel or Compositions at the Wheel" were published, causing great interest among the press and literary society of Ukraine.

On the same year Liudmyla Skyrda represented Ukrainian poetry at the World Arts Festival - Delphic Games on Jeju Island (Korea).

Lyrics of Liudmyla Skyrda were translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Finnish, German, Japanese, Korean, Uzbek, Greek, Chinese and Arabic.

In 1966 Liudmyla Skyrda played in the movie by famous Ukrainian poet and director Nicholas Vingranovsky The Coast of Hope (Dovzhenko Film Studios).