PEN Ukraine
PEN Ukraine is a Ukrainian non-governmental organization established to protect freedom of speech and authors' rights, promote literature and international cultural cooperation.
[4] The congress for 2022 will be held from the 27th of September to the 1st of October in Uppsala, Sweden, with the title "The Power of Words: Future challenges for freedom of expression".
The main criteria for joining the PEN are to share the values of the organization listed in its Charter and to have the desire to promote the development of literature and protect freedom of speech in Ukraine and the world.
[11] As of October 2019, the members of the executive board of the organization are Olena Styazhkina, Leonid Finberg, Yevhen Zakharov, Larysa Denysenko and Ostap Slyvynsky.
There are currently two honorary presidents, Myroslav Marynovych, human rights activist, journalist, religious scholar, and lecturer, and Mykola Riabchuk, poet, translator, prose writer and essayist.
On 6 December 2018, the Executive Council of the Ukrainian PEN selected the third winner of the competition for the translation of a book of short stories by Oleg Sentsov into German.
The participants of the residency today are writers Luba-Paraskevia Strynadyuk, Lyubko Deresh, Michael Zeller (Germany), and translator Yaroslava Strikha.
The winners of the Shevelyov Prize in different years were: Taras Prokhasko, Andrii Portnov, Konstantin Moskalets, Oleksandr Boychenko, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Andriy Lyubka, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Diana Klochko.
[29] This is a new award in the field of journalism in Ukraine founded by the Ukrainian PEN in partnership with the Association of Alumni of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and the publication "Ukrayinska Pravda".
The first winner of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize was a journalist, historian, editor-in-chief of the online publication Istorychna Pravda, as well as the founder of the Museum-Archive of the Press Vakhtang Kipiani.
[33] The winner of the prize in 2020 was Claudia Dathe from Germany,[33] nominated for her translations of Serhiy Zhadan's collection “Antenna” and Oleksiy Chupa's novel “Fairy Tales of My Bomb Shelter”.
