Poet, publisher, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, Ivan Malkovych received the award of the same name at the “Vincenz Circle” Conference at the Via Carpatia Forum. It was presented by the fifth president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.
“It is a great honor for me to receive this award and to enter Vincenz’s bright circle. This is a person who took off the “invisibility cap” from Hutsul culture and showed it to the whole world in his epic “On the High Uplands”. It is important to show culture, and to enlighten the people with culture. As Stanisław Vincenz did, as Mykola Kniazhytskyi is doing, organizing such Forums.
– said Malkovych
He also noted that in recent years, more has been done for Ukrainian culture than before: new institutions have been created, laws have been passed to support Ukrainian cinema, song and culture.
