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

Her husband Ihor Ostash was a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (1996–2006) and is an 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 a 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 the Slovenian, Serbian-Croat and Macedonian languages. At this time, her first poems in the Dnipro and Zhovten literary magazines appeared as well. Since 2000, she has worked as a novelist and essay writer. Maryna Hrymych is the 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)

References

Further reading Encyclopaedia of Modern Ukraine. Vol. 6. (Енциклопедія Сучасної України. T 6, 2006) Ukrainian Writers: Bibliographical Tool (Письменники України : Бібліографічний довідник, 2006). Department of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: the Past and the Present (1834–2004) (Історичний факультет Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка: минуле й сьогодення (1834—2004 рр.), 2004). Vorobyova, T. Gender Aspect of the Repetition of the Genre Canons in the Ukrainian Popular Novels (Basing on the Novels Egoist by M. Hrymych and Woman with Sword by L. Demska) // Current Issues of Slavonic Philology (Воробйова Т. В. Гендерний аспект наслідування жанрових канонів в українському жіночому масовому романі (на матеріалі романів М. Гримич «Егоїст» та Л. Демської «Жінка з мечем» // Актуальні проблеми слов'янської філології. Вип. 11, Ч. 2, 2006). Herasymenko, N. What Stands Behind Business of a Literary Text? Or Once More About Psychotherapeutic Fiction on the Example of Novelism of One of the Modern Writers: Novels by Maryna Hrymych // Literary Ukraine (Що за комерційністю літературного тексту? або Ще раз про психотерапевтичну белетристику на прикладі творчості одного із сучасних авторів: (Романи Марини Гримич) // Літературна Україна. No. 38, 2008). Dolzhenkova, I. In the Maze of the House-Tree // The Mirror of the Week (Долженкова І. У лабіринтах дому-древа // Дзеркало тижня. No. 32, 2006). External links National Writers Union of Ukraine Maryna Hrymych web-page on avtura.com.ua Chief Editor’s page on the Duliby web-site Full list of the scientific works by Maryna Hrymych

Maryna Hrymych novels on the BBC Book of the Year – 2010 Second life White Owl Island