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The name that was returned: Iryna Nevytska

The name that was returned: Iryna Nevytska

2006, 19 min

2006, Transcarpathian Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "Let's remember Nevytska..." tells about the Ukrainian writer Iryna Nevytska. During the communist regime, the writer's name was banned. After the declaration of Ukraine's independence, Iryna Nevytska began to be talked about again in creative circles, and her work began to be studied in educational institutions.

Nataliya Rebryk, editor of the "Grazhda" publishing house, talks about the study of the writer's work, her connections with the cultural environment of Transcarpathia, and about people who knew and remembered Iryna Nevytska, in particular Augustyn Voloshyn and Vasyl Grange-Donsky. It is about the return of the writer's name to Ukrainian literary circulation, her female fate, family history and the fate of her descendants.

The program shows a fragment of Natalia Rebryk's play "The Night Before", based on the story of Iryna Nevytska. Nataliya Rebryk talks about the creation of the work, and also reads Pyotr Midyanka's poem "Nevytska".

Commenting: Ukrainian language and literature teacher of Uzhhorod secondary school №5 Lyubov Mandrychenko, editor of the publishing house "Grazhda" Nataliya Rebryk.

The following worked on the program: author and presenter Iryna Harmasii, director Nataliya Tron, cameramen Volodymyr Duda and Istvan Tovt, sound engineer Oleg Sharkov, editor Nataliya Denisyuk, technical support Yosyp Batya and Oleksiy Marglevskyi.