Ivan Dziuba

Literary critic, social activist, dissident, Hero of Ukraine, 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). 

He was the Co-Chief of Editorial Board of the Encyclopaedia of Modern Ukraine. 

He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine The Contemporary (Сучасність) and, during the 1990s, a member of the editorial boards of scientific magazines "Київська старовина", "Слово і час", "Євроатлантика" and others.

Dziuba died in Kyiv on 22 February 2022, at the age of 90.