Ivan Dziuba

Ivan Dziuba
Іван Дзюба
Dziuba in 2004
Minister of Culture of Ukraine
In office
17 November 1992  19 August 1994
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Prime Minister
Preceded byLarysa Khorolets
Succeeded byDmytro Ostapenko
Personal details
Born(1931-07-26)26 July 1931
Mykolaivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died22 February 2022(2022-02-22) (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.