Prize laureates
Ukrainian literary scholar, educator and translator, professor at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles, literary works, translations, studies, prefaces and commentaries in Ukrainian, German and other languages. Thanks to Petro Rykhlo, many forgotten German-language writers of Bukovyna — Rose Ausländer, Alfred Margul-Sperber, Moses Rosenkranz, Immanuel Weissglas, Alfred Gong and others — have been brought back to the attention of the wider public. Member of the founding group of the MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ International Poetry Festival and PEN Ukraine.
His Ukrainian translations include around 40 books by German-language authors; he also edited a ten-volume Ukrainian collection of poetry by Paul Celan, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Rykhlo’s work has received widespread international recognition: he has been awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, the Georg Dehio Prize and the Reiner Kunze Prize. In 2021, he received the Stanisław Vincenz Prize for Humanistic Service and a Contribution to Regional Development.