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General facts.
National Writers’ Union of Ukraine is a voluntary social creative association of professional writers of Ukraine - poets, prosaists, playwrights, critics and translators.
The NSPU was founded in 1934 as a constituent part of Writers` Union of the former SSSR during the first Congress of the Ukrainian writers.
On April 1991 the First Congress of the independent Writers` Union took place. The Writers’ Union of Ukraine was proclaimed independent from any union structures.
In compliance with the law “On Authors and Creative associations”, accepted in 1998, the Writers’ Union of Ukraine became the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine. The supreme body of the NSPU is the Congress of the Ukrainian writers holding once in five years. Between the Congresses, the managing body is Council of the NSPU and Presidium of the NSPU. Executive functions are delegated to the Secretariat.
The Head of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine is a famous writer Yuriy Mushketyk.
Now the NSPU accounts for above 1600 members of the Union, among them there are 84 writers, living abroad. The most of the members of the NSPU are writing in Ukrainian language, but also in Russian, Moldavian, Jewish, Hungarian, Greek etc.
The NSPU has its regional organizations in every oblast centre of Ukraine with the proper structure and authorities, as well as in some other large cities.
Recording the achievements in literary field the NSPU rewards the authors with different prizes, the main of which are: Lesia Ukrayinka Prize, Ivan Franko Prize, Pavlo Tychyna Prize, Maxym Rylsky Prize, “Blagovist” (“Church Bells”) and others.
Historacal background.
There are bright and sad pages in the history of our association.
Thus, during the years of Stalin’s personality cult more than 500 Ukrainian writers were repressed, most of them were imprisoned or executed. During the Great World War II 173 literators were in Soviet Army, partisan detachments and Ukrainian insurrectional Army, another worked in the rear - in publishing houses, newspapers and magazines and editorial offices.
39 members of the NSPU died in the struggle with the enemy.
Quite a number of Ukrainian writers were persecuted by soviet regime after Stalin’s personality cult had been dethroned. Among them there were Vasyl’ Stus and Ivan Svitlychniy, Valeriy Marchenko and Mykola Rudenko.
During the years of the struggle for the independence the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine became the centre of this struggle. Famous national liberation and political organizations (“RUH”, “PROSVITA”, “MEMORIAL”) were set up in the medium of Ukrainian writers.
Objectives.
The main objectives of the NSPU activities are:
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