Ivan Dziuba
Ivan Dziuba | |
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Іван Дзюба | |
Dziuba in 2004 | |
| Minister of Culture of Ukraine | |
| In office 17 November 1992 – 19 August 1994 | |
| President | Leonid Kravchuk |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Larysa Khorolets |
| Succeeded by | Dmytro Ostapenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 July 1931 Mykolaivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 22 February 2022 (aged 90) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Awards | Member of the Order of Liberty Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 5th class |
Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba (Ukrainian: Іва́н Миха́йлович Дзю́ба; 26 July 1931 – 22 February 2022) was a Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, and Soviet dissident. Honoured as a Hero of Ukraine in 2001, Dziuba was an academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1992—1994), and head of the committee for Shevchenko National Prize (1999–2001).
Dziuba was the editor in chief of the magazine The Contemporary (Ukrainian: Сучасність) and during the 1990s was a member of the editorial boards of scientific magazines Kyiv Antiquity (Ukrainian: Київська старовина), Word and Time (Ukrainian: Слово і час), Euroatlantic (Ukrainian: Євроатлантика), and others. He was also the Co-Chief of editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.