On November 9, on the occasion of the Day of Ukrainian Language and Literature, the winners of the All-Ukrainian competition of small literary forms named after Anatoliy Lupinos were awarded in the Smoloskyp bookstore in Kyiv.
Veterans-volunteers of the Russian-Ukrainian war won in all three nominations of the competition (prose, poetry and works for children), which prompted the competition jury to announce the emergence of a new phenomenon in Ukrainian literature – volunteer literature.
Also, the organizers of the event proposed to include the study of the life and work of Anatoly Lupinos to the school program. The National Corps supports this initiative and will send a letter to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in the near future.
Anatoliy Lupinis (21.07.1937-05.02.2000) – a man-legend of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, a long-term political prisoner of the Soviet concentration camps, co-founder of the People’s Movement, UNA-UNSO, initiator of the Ukrainian volunteer and humanitarian mission in the zone of Russian aggression against the Caucasus 1990s (personally took children out of the war zone). Anatoly Lupinis was also a poet and publicist.
It will be recalled that in July this year, the Institute of National Development in partnership with two publishing houses initiated a literary competition named after Anatoly Lupinos. The competition lasted for three months, and among the fifty participants of the jury chose the best authors of prose and lyric works, as well as works for children.