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: for translations of French poetry

1974: for translation of Kobzar into Bulgarian

1975: for translation of the works by Russian Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov and works on the theory and practice of translation

1976: for translation of Bulgarian poetry

1977: for translation of world's poetry classics

1978: for translation of Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

1979: for translation of Odyssey and Iliad by Homer

1980: 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: for translations from Hungarian works by Sándor Petőfi, János Arany, Endre Ady, anthologies of Hungarian classical and modern poetry

1984:

• for the translations into Azerbaijani works of Ukrainian writers
• 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: 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: for translations of classics of European literature

1991: 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: 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
• for translations of Lithuanian poetry into Ukrainian
• , translations from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and English

1995: (Kyryakov) for the translation into Greek and Romanian

1996:

• for translations from Slavic languages
• for the translations into Ukrainian from Swedish and other
• for research in the field of translation and editing the anthology of poetic translation

1997: 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 Mokrovolskyi for translations of European literature classics

2000: for the translation of Tristan and Iseult

2001: for the translation from German "Radetsky's March" by Joseph Roth and the works of German and English children's writers

2002: 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
• for translations from the English works by William Shakespeare, John Updike, Jack Kerouac and others
• for translations of Polish poetry

2004:

• for poetic and prose translations from Spanish, Georgian, Lithuanian, German, Slavic and other languages
• for translation of the Armenian folk epic Davyd Sasunskyi
• for translations of Kyrgyz poetry

2005:

• for translations from Japanese
• for translations from Czech and Slovak
• for translations from English

2006:

• Oleksiy Logvynenko for translations of novels and short stories by German and English speaking writers
• for poetry translations from Slavic languages

2007:

• for the translations of the works of Scandinavian writers
• 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: for translations from English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

2010: Natalya Trokhym for the translation of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

2011: for the translation of the novel Bikini by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski and other

2012: for the translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's books

2013:

• Anatoliy Cherdakli for the translation Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
• for the translation of Marguerite Yourcenar's book

2014: 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: for the translation from Greek of Erotokritos poem by of Vitsentzos Kornaros

2018: for the literary translation from the ancient Japanese language of the collection of stories and legends of Yoshida Kenkō

2019: for the literary translation of Kim by Rudyard Kipling's

2020:

• for the translation collection of works "The First Poets. Code of Ancient Greek Women's Poetry" from the Ancient Greek language
• 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
• , Nicole Laurent-Katris for the translation from Ukrainian into French of Silver Blood by Pavel Movchan

2022:

• for the translation of fairy tales by Hermann Hesse
• for the translation into Armenian of Kaidash's Family by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky

2023:

• Dmytro Drozdovskyi and Andrew Sheppard in the category For the translation of works by Ukrainian classics and contemporary authors into the languages of the peoples of the world; they were recognized for the translation of the children’s anthology Irpin - My Home. This led to controversy throughout the Ukrainian literary community.

2024:

• There was no prize awarded in 2024 due to the 2023 controversy.

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