Maryna Hrymych

Maryna Villivna Hrymych (; born 1961) is a Ukrainian novelist and academician. Ph.D. in Philology and History (Candidate of Philology, Doctor of History). Editor in Chief of the Publishing House Duliby. Producer of the literary project Lyuba Klymenko. Member of the Writers Union of Ukraine, member of the Canadian Union of Ethnology.

Her husband Ihor Ostash was a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (1996–2006), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada (since 2006).

Education Maryna Hrymych was born on April 4, 1961, in Kyiv. In 1983 Maryna Hrymych graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Department of Philology, Chair of Slavonic Studies. In 1990 she obtained Ph.D. in philology (Candidate Ph.D.) from the Institute of Art History, Folkloristics and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Social Republic. In 1991-1995 she worked as an Academic Secretary and Deputy Head of the International School of Ukrainian Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Between 1996 and 2006 she was Associate Professor and later Professor of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Department of History. In 2001-2006 Hrymych chairs Ethnology and Regional Studies of the department. In 2004 she obtained her Ph.D. in history (Doctorate Ph.D.). She is married to Ihor Ostash.

Career Hrymych began her academic career as an ethnographer and folklorist at the M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art History, Folkloristics and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. At the Department of History of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she taught ethnology and social anthropology. Her cross-disciplinary Ph.D. thesis (Doctorate Ph.D.) focused on customary law as it relates to three scientific fields – ethnology, history and law.

Hrymych conducted ethnological and anthropological field work throughout Ukraine and in a number of other countries. She authored two monographs, and two manuals.

She was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Award (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) for her monograph Property Institution in the Customary Law Culture of the Ukrainians in the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries (2004).

She is a member of the Canadian Union of Ethnology (since 2007).

As a student Hrymych published her first translations from Slovenian, Serbian-Croat and Macedonian languages. At this time appear as well her first poems in Dnipro and Zhovten literary magazines. Since 2000 she has worked as a novelist and essay writer. Maryna Hrymych is author of eight novels, two book translations, and essays.

She is a prize-winner of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova (special awards in 2000, 2001, first prize in 2002 for novel Egoist).

Since 2004 she is a member of the Writers Union of Ukraine.

In 2004 she founded and took the lead of the publishing house Duliby specializing in modern Ukrainian literature and scientific works of ethnological character.

Publications

Novels Do You Hear, Margo? (Ти чуєш, Марго?, 2000) - Prize of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova Bartholomew's Night (Варфоломієва ніч, 2002) - Prize of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova Magdalynky (Магдалинки, 2003) Egoist (Еґоїст, 2003) – First Prize of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova Red Poppy in the Dew (Мак червоний в росі, 2005) Frida (Фріда, 2006) White Owl Island (Острів білої сови, 2010) Second Life (Second Life (Друге життя), 2010) Letyuchiy Smittyevoz (Летючий Сміттевоз, 2016)

Scientific works

Traditional Worldview and Ethno-Psychological Constants of the Ukrainians (Cognitive Anthropology) (Традиційний світогляд та етнопсихологічні константи українців (Когнітивна антропологія), 2000) Property Institution in the Customary Law Culture of the Ukrainians in the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries (Інститут власності у звичаєво-правовій культурі українців ХІХ - початку ХХ ст., 2004) – Taras Shevchenko Award, 2005 (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), 5th place in the category ‘Foretime’ of the All-Ukrainian Ranking Book of the Year, 2004 Customary Law of the Ukrainians in the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries: Second, Revised Edition (Звичаєве право українців ХІХ — початку ХХ ст.: 2 видання, доповнене, 2006)