Ivan Dziuba

Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba (; 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'' (), ''Word and Time'' (), ''Euroatlantic'' (), and others. He was also the Co-Chief of editorial board of the ''Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine''. Provided by Wikipedia