# Maksym Rylsky Prize

Maksym Rylsky prize is given annually recognizing outstanding literary works of translation into Ukrainian language and translation of classical or contemporary literary works from Ukrainian to other languages. Named after Maksym Rylsky, Ukrainian poet and translator.

## History

Established in 1972 by the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, the monetary equivalent of which was 1,000 Soviet rubles. After the USSR split, the award was administered by National Writers' Union of Ukraine. It was reintroduced in 2013 by the State Committee for Television and Radio-broadcasting and was awarded to one nominee. Since 2019 the prize is awarded in two nominations, each with 20 000 hryvnas award.

## Winners

1973: Mykola Tereshchenko for translations of French poetry
1974: Dimitr Metodiev [uk] for translation of Kobzar into Bulgarian
1975: Stepan Kovganyuk for translation of the works by Russian Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov and works on the theory and practice of translation
1976: Dmytro Bilous for translation of Bulgarian poetry
1977: Vasyl Mysyk for translation of world's poetry classics
1978: Evgeny Drobyazko [uk] for translation of Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
1979: Borys Ten for translation of Odyssey and Iliad by Homer
1980: Diodor Bobir for translations novel My Dagestan by Rasul Gamzatov and poetry collection
1981: Maya Kashel for translations from Vietnamese
1982: Maria Komissarova for translations into Russian of the works of Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka and some Ukrainian Soviet poets
1983: Yuriy Shkrobinets for translations from Hungarian works by Sándor Petőfi, János Arany, Endre Ady, anthologies of Hungarian classical and modern poetry
1984:
* Abbas Abdulla for the translations into Azerbaijani works of Ukrainian writers
* Abram Katsnelson for the translations into Ukrainian collection of translations Jewish Soviet Poetry
1985: Dmytro Pavlychko for translations of José Martí, Hristo Botev, Nikola Vaptsarov and the anthology World Sonnet
1986: Andrii Sodomora for translations of Horace, Ovid, Catullus poetry
1987: Raul Chilachava for translations into Georgian works by Taras Shevchenko, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Lesya Ukrainka, Pavlo Tychyna, Maksym Rylskyi, Volodymyr Sosiura and contemporary Ukrainian poets
1988: Mykola Lukash for translations into Ukrainian of Faust, Decameron, Imre Madách's Human Tragedies, works of Lope de Vega, Guillaume Apollinaire, Lorka, Friedrich Schiller, Robert Burns and other
1989: Hryhoriy Kochur for translations of classics of European poetry
1990: Dmytro Palamarchuk for translations of classics of European literature
1991: Yuriy Lisnyak for the interpretation into Ukrainian Heinrich Mann's novels Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Honoré de Balzac's La Peau de chagrin
1992: Yevhen Popovych for translations from the German
1993:
* Vil Hrymych for the interpretations of the works by Slavic languages writers
* Rostyslav Dotsenko for the translation of Margaret Mitchell's novels Gone with the Wind and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
* Yosyp Kobiv for translations of Plutarch and Plato works
1994:
* Igor Kaczurowskyj for numerous translations of poetry from Spanish and Latin American, French, Italian, German, and Chinese
* Oleksa Synychenko for translations from Georgian and German
* Dmytro Cherednychenko for translations of Lithuanian poetry into Ukrainian
* Olha Seniuk, translations from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and English
1995: Leontiy Kir (Kyryakov) for the translation into Greek and Romanian
1996:
* Dmytro Andruhiv for translations from Slavic languages
* Oleksandr Zavhorodniy for the translations into Ukrainian from Swedish and other
* Mykhailo Moskalenko for research in the field of translation and editing the anthology of poetic translation
1997: Mykhailo Lytvynets for translations from Spanish, French, Provençal, Basque, Italian, Polish and other languages
1998:
* Volodymyr Zhitnyk for translations from Czech
* Volodymyr Mitrofanov for the translations of classics of American literature
* Petro Tymochko for translations from the Polish and German
1999: Oleksandr Mokrovolsky for translations of European literature classics
2000: Viktor Koptilov for the translation of Tristan and Iseult
2001: Evgenia Horeva for the translation from German "Radetsky's March" by Joseph Roth and the works of German and English children's writers
2002: Hryhoriy Filipchuk for the translation from French and Spanish works of Honore de Balzac, André Malraux, Robert Merle, Fernand Braudel, Augusto Ro Bastos, Jorge Isaacs and others
2003:
* Valentyn Tsipko for translations of the works of modern Azerbaijani writers
* Maria Hablevych for translations from the English works by William Shakespeare, John Updike, Jack Kerouac and others
* Stanislav Shevchenko for translations of Polish poetry
2004:
* Svitlana Zholob for poetic and prose translations from Spanish, Georgian, Lithuanian, German, Slavic and other languages
* Viktor Kochevskyi for translation of the Armenian folk epic Davyd Sasunskyi
* Boryslav Stepanyuk for translations of Kyrgyz poetry
2005:
* Ivan Dzyub for translations from Japanese
* Oleh Mykytenko for translations from Czech and Slovak
* Oleksandr Terech for translations from English
2006:
* Oleksiy Logvynenko for translations of novels and short stories by German and English speaking writers
* Roman Lubkivskyi for poetry translations from Slavic languages
2007:
* Galina Kirpa for the translations of the works of Scandinavian writers
* Mykola Miroshnychenko for the translation of the two volume Anthology of Azerbaijani Poetry
2008:
* Serhiy Borshchevskiy for highly artistic translations of the works of poets of Spain and Latin America
* Oleg Zhupansky for the translation from the French novel by Albert Camus "The First Man".
2009: Viktor Shovkun for translations from English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
2010: Natalya Trokhym for the translation of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
2011: Yurii Popsuenko for the translation of the novel Bikini by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski and other
2012: Petro Tarashchuk for the translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's books
2013:
* Anatoliy Cherdakli for the translation Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
* Dmytro Сhystiak for the translation of Marguerite Yourcenar's book
2014: Gamada Roman for translations from Persian.
2015: Maksym Strikha for the translation of Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
2016: Ivan Riabchyi for Two Gentlemen of Brussels by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
2017: Vasyl Stepanenko for the translation from Greek of Erotokritos poem by of Vitsentzos Kornaros
2018: Nina Balykova for the literary translation from the ancient Japanese language of the collection of stories and legends of Yoshida Kenkō
2019: Yuliya Dzhugastryanska for the literary translation of Kim by Rudyard Kipling's
2020:
* Taras Luchuk for the translation collection of works "The First Poets. Code of Ancient Greek Women's Poetry" from the Ancient Greek language
* Valery Kior for the translation into Greek (Urumian) of Kobzar by of Taras Shevchenko
2021:
* Elena O'Lear for the translation into Ukrainian of The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats
* Dmytro Сhystiak, Nicole Laurent-Katris for the translation from Ukrainian into French of Silver Blood by Pavel Movchan
2022:
* Ivan Megela for the translation of fairy tales by Hermann Hesse
* Raissa Gharagyozyan for the translation into Armenian of Kaidash's Family by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky