Literature and publishing

Emma Andijewska is a Ukrainian artist, writer, and poet. Her oeuvre includes more than 17,000 paintings, more than 40 prose works, 215 sonnets, and many poems. The artist's works are kept in museums and private collections worldwide.

Ivan Bahriany (real name Lazoviahin) was a Ukrainian writer, publicist, social and political activist, the founder of "camp prose" in Ukrainian literature, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party (URDP), Vice President of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) in exile, and a representative of the third (political) wave of emigration.

Vasyl Barka was a writer, literary critic, translator, and author of one of the first and most famous works about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, “Zhovtyi kniaz” (The Yellow Prince). He was the first winner of the Antonovych Foundation Award (1981).

Volodymyr Bilyaiv was a Ukrainian poet and journalist, public figure, director of the Ukrainian Service of the Voice of America (1991-1998), corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States (1984), and member of the National Wtiter’s Union of Ukraine (1995).

Hanna Cherin was a Ukrainian and American writer, poet, literary critic, and public figure.

Yevhen Chykalenko was a philanthropist, publisher, journalist, member of the Hromada of Kyiv, and initiator of the Society of Ukrainian Progressives.

Mykhailo Drahomanov was a Ukrainian public and political figure, publicist, founder of Ukrainian socialism, and an active member of the Ukrainian political emigration in 19th-century Europe.

Myroslav Hryhoriiv was a Ukrainian, Czech, and American artist, graphic designer, illustrator, journalist, publisher, public figure, scouting activist, and creator of the cover of the first Ukrainian-language edition of George Orwell's dystopian novel Animal Farm (1947).

Dokiya Humenna was a Ukrainian émigré writer whose literary heritage includes more than 30 volumes. Among them are several works about the Ukrainian diaspora.