Ivan Franko International Prize is an annual prize, which is awarded on August 27, on the day of Ivan Franko’s birthday.
The Prize laureates are presented a monetary award and a golden laureate’s badge.
In the nomination “For significant achievements in humanities and social sciences”:
- Johannes Remy(University of Helsinki)for his work “Brothers or Enemies: The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia, from the 1840s to the 1870s”.
In the nomination “For significant achievements in the Development of Ukrainian Studies”:
- Yaroslava Melnyk (Ukrainian Catholic University) for the monograph “…And the last part of the way. Ivan Franko in 1908-1916”.
More in English and Ukrainian as well as Interview with the grandson of Ivan Franko, Roland Franko, the founder of the International Ivan Franko Fund (in Ukrainian)