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Roman Ivanychuk (1929-2016) was a famous Ukrainian writer, winner of many literary awards, including the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. His oeuvre includes about twenty historical novels, with which the writer filled in the gaps in our history. R. Ivanychuk expanded the genre boundaries of the historical novel, opening up the past to the reader, which activated the national memory.

The publication contains the writer's key thoughts and reflections on the mystery of creativity, which he called "My Kunstkamera". This is a story about R. Ivanychuk's childhood in his native Trach, his studies at the Kolomyia Gymnasium, his first years in Lviv, as well as a special course for philology students, in which he shares his authorial experience, reveals creative secrets, and, using the example of his own works, reveals what artistic means, traditions and innovation, ethical, aesthetic, and ideological principles are...