Prize laureates
Ukrainian poet and publisher, founder and director of A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA publishing house. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
In 1992, he founded A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA, a publishing house that transformed the standards of Ukrainian children’s books and nurtured generations of Ukrainian readers. Malkovych is the author, translator and compiler of more than 30 books for children, and his own poetry has been translated into many languages. In 2017, he received the Shevchenko Prize for Plantain with New Poems; he has also been awarded the Order of Merit, Third Class, and the international Order of the Smile.