First awarded 1961-1992 | Ceremony date March 9, 2017, 10:00 AM | |
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Awarded for ...the most remarkable works of literature and arts, publicity and journalism... Presented by Government of Ukrainian SSR / President of Ukraine Winners Stepan KovalMy Country is Ukraine, Stepan Koval, Cinematography, Cinematography, Mykola MalyshkoThe Line, Mykola Malyshko, Visual Arts, Visual Arts, Bohdana Frolyak, Bohdana Frolyak, Music, Music, Ivan MalkovychTHE PLANTAIN with new poems, Ivan Malkovych, Literature - Journalism and Opinion Journalism, Literature - Journalism and Opinion Journalism, Anzhelina Shvachka, Anzhelina Shvachka, Concert-Performing Art and Spoken Word, Concert-Performing Art and Spoken Word, Oleg SentsovGamer - Rhino, Oleg Sentsov, Cinematography, Cinematography, Radu PoklitaruThe Long Christmas Dinner - Swan Lake - Women in D minor -, Radu Poklitaru, Music, Music, Levko Lukyanenko, Levko Lukyanenko, Journalism and Opinion Journalism, Journalism and Opinion Journalism, Mykhailo GuidaIn Single Space, Mykhailo Guida, Visual Arts, Visual Arts, Kost Moskalets, Kost Moskalets, Art and Literary Criticism, Art and Literary Criticism, Yurii Buriak, Yurii Buriak, Fiction Literature, Fiction Literature, Mykola KompanetsLand of My Fathers, Mykola Kompanets, Visual Arts, Visual Arts, Petro PanchukEverywhere One, Petro Panchuk, Theater, Theater, Iryna HaiukIllustrated Encyclopaedia of the Armenian Culture in Ukraine - With Catalogued Addendum of the List of the Armenian Culture's Objects in Museums and Cultural Reserves, Iryna Haiuk, Art and Literary Criticism, Art and Literary Criticism, Myroslav DochynetsWell-Digger: Diary of the Richest Resident of Mukachevo District - Highlander: Waters of Our Lord’s Riverbeds, Myroslav Dochynets, Fiction Literature, Fiction Literature, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Music, Music, Tetiana PlekhanovaThe Flying Dutchman, Tetiana Plekhanova, Theater, Theater, Liubomyr MedvidReminiscences, Liubomyr Medvid, Visual Arts, Visual Arts, Vasyl VasylenkoThe Flying Dutchman, Vasyl Vasylenko, Theater, Theater, Liudmyla StreltsovaThe Flying Dutchman, Liudmyla Streltsova, Theater, Theater, Vasyl RiabenkyiThe Flying Dutchman, Vasyl Riabenkyi, Theater, Theater, Mariia KurochkaThe Flying Dutchman, Mariia Kurochka, Theater, Theater, Leonid HorlachSign of Broken Yoke, Leonid Horlach, Fiction Literature, Fiction Literature, Dmytro BohomazovHamlet - The Ratcatcher - Guests Will Come at Midnight, Dmytro Bohomazov, Theater, Theater, Petro PechornyiSeries of Ceramic Plates Decorated With Scenes Based on Taras Shevchenko's Works, Petro Pechornyi, Folk and Applied Arts, Folk and Applied Arts | ||
Shevchenko National Prize (Ukrainian: Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also Shevchenko Award) is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since 1961. It is named after the inspirer of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko. It is one of the five state prizes of Ukraine that are awarded for achievements in various fields.
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History
In May 1961 the Soviet Union was honoring on a large scale the memory of Ukrainian Kobzar Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko. A century from the day of his death became the reason for conducting festive events not only in Ukraine, but throughout the Soviet Union.
Thus, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union used the people's love for the great poet with goals of propaganda for "successes of Lenin National Policy" (e.g. Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia), but it had to consider the national sentiments of Ukrainian people. Such atmosphere contributed to that on May 20, 1961 the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR issued a resolution "About establishing annual Shevchenko Republican Prize". At the same time there was adopted the Provision on prizes and examples of honoring badges with diplomas for laureates; also there was established a government committee headed by Oleksiy Korniychuk, which consisted along with the party's officials prominent figures of Ukrainian culture. It was awarded to the prominent performers of literature, arts, music, theater, cinematography, architecture, and others.
The first laureates received the Prize on March 9, 1962. They were Pavlo Tychyna (recent speaker of Verkhovna Rada) and Oleksandr Honchar in literature, and Platon Mayboroda in music.
As of April 23, 1969 the award was renamed the Shevchenko State Prize of Ukrainian SSR. By the order of the President of Ukraine #800/2000 on June 22, 2000 the award became known as the Shevchenko National Prize.
From 1962 to 2007 the award was given to 566 people and eight collective ensembles.
Statute of the Award
The National Prize is awarded annually by the order of the President of Ukraine. There are up to five prizes in the following nominations:
A special committee is elected to organize a concourse in three stages. Once decided the names of the candidates are forwarded to the State Committee of Awards and Heraldry that petitions them to the President.
The Awarded are paid by the Committee of amount size of which is identified annually by the President. The monetary award of the Prize for 2009 was ₴160,000 for each prize. For comparison, in 2008 the Prize money amounted to ₴130,000 which was equivalent to $25,000+. The first award in 1962 was given along with 2,500 Soviet rubles. The monetary award of the Prize in 2010 was confirmed at ₴130,000 which by 40,000 less than the last year (implying that it was ₴170,000). The Party of Regions spokesperson Hanna Herman commented that the funds were awarded only that one that were already on the Shevchenko's Fund. Shevchenko lived modestly, lived in need, and to buy him out of serfdom the Russian Intelligentsia collected 2,500 rubles - she added.
Special Conditions
The works that seek the National Prize are presented by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, the Ukrainian National Academy of Science, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, the Ukrainian artistic unions, and the Ukrainian literally and artistically critical associations. It may be awarded to the citizens of Ukraine as well as with a foreigners.
The literary and artistic works that reached the third stage can be nominated for the second time, but no more than two times. The special committee accepts all the works for the National Prize starting the following year from August 1 to November 1 of the current year. The collective authors of a presented work cannot exceed three persons, no more than five for a collective of performers. The participants that performed any administrative, organizational, or counseling functions cannot be included among the laureates. The National Prize is awarded to an author or a performer only once in the lifetime.
Field of cinematography
During its history the prize was additionally awarded for featured films (until introduction of the Dovzhenko State Prize in 1994).
Politics
On occasion it was awarded in 1964 on political basis to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of USSR Nikita Khrushchev.
Architecture
Before introduction of the State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture in 1991, the Schevchenko National Prize was awarded for architecture as well: