Kameniar

Kameniar (Ukrainian: «Каменяр») is a Ukrainian publishing house whose full name is the State Enterprise "All-Ukrainian State Multidisciplinary Publishing House 'Kameniar'" (Державне підприємство «Всеукраїнське державне багатопрофільне видавництво «Каменяр»»). It is based in Lviv and operates as a state-owned enterprise. The name derives from the literary pseudonym of Ivan Franko, "Kameniar" (the stonecutter), and the publisher has long been associated with Franko's literary legacy. The house traces its origins to a Lviv regional newspaper publishing operation founded in autumn 1939, after Western Ukraine was incorporated into the Soviet Union. It was reorganized in 1945 on the basis of the regional newspaper publisher "Vilna Ukraina" and in 1964 was transformed into a republican publishing house under its current name. Over the decades it has issued works by Ivan Franko, Natalia Kobrynska, Uliana Kravchenko, Mykhailo Pavlyk, Andriy Chaikovsky, Hnat Khotkevych, Mykhailo Yatskiv and many others, and after Ukraine's independence it published works by Bohdan Lepky, Olha Kobylianska, Antin Lototsky, Roman Kupchynsky, Dmytro Blazheyovsky, Yulian Opilsky and others. Kameniar publishes both mass-market and scholarly books, offers editorial and publishing services (copying and compiling texts, editing, design, production of camera-ready layouts), and engages in wholesale book trade for its own and other publishers' output. It has taken part in the inter-publishing series "School Library" and in 2001 began the "Library of Slavic Literature," including books in Polish by Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Maria Konopnicka, Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II), Józef Lobodowski, Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz, among others. In recent years it has issued books on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and local-history works about Horodok, Sokal, Yavoriv, Lviv, Terebovlia and other places. The publisher is a co-founder of the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Literary Prize "Pryvitannia zhyttia" ("Greeting of Life"), established in 1994.

Kameniar traces its beginnings to the Lviv regional newspaper publishing house founded in autumn 1939, after Western Ukraine was incorporated into the Soviet Union. By the start of the Second World War in the Soviet Union (1941–1945), it had issued 7 books and brochures totaling 60 accounting-and-publishing sheets in a print run of 2,000 copies, as well as 9 issues of the journal "Literature and Art" (Ukrainian: «Література і мистецтво»), which after the war appeared under the names "Soviet Kyiv" and "Zhovten" and is now "Dzvin" (the Bell). Among its first publications were Iryna Vilde's "History of One Life" (1940) and S. Tudor's "Birth" (1941). During the Nazi occupation the publisher's work was suspended. On 25 January 1945, on the basis of the regional newspaper publisher "Vilna Ukraina" (Free Ukraine), a book-and-journal publishing house was created, which in 1964 was transformed into a republican publishing house under its current name, Kameniar. The name comes from the literary pseudonym of Ivan Franko, the "Kameniar" (stonecutter). The house published works by Ivan Franko, Natalia Kobrynska, Uliana Kravchenko, Mykhailo Pavlyk, Andriy Chaikovsky, Hnat Khotkevych, Mykhailo Yatskiv and others; after Ukraine gained independence it issued works by Bohdan Lepky, Olha Kobylianska, Antin Lototsky, Roman Kupchynsky, Dmytro Blazheyovsky, Yulian Opilsky and many more. For the first time, new works by writers of the Western Ukrainian region appeared in Kameniar, including Dmytro Pavlychko, Roman Ivanychuk, Roman Lubkivsky, M. Khorosnytska and others. In 1958–1974 it published the short-story library "Na dobry vechir" ("For a Good Evening"), restored in 1990. Kameniar takes part in the inter-publishing series "School Library," and in 2001 began issuing the "Library of Slavic Literature" within a program of publishing literature in the languages of national minorities; for example, it has produced books in Polish by Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Maria Konopnicka, Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II), Józef Lobodowski, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz and others. In recent years it has published books on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and local-history works, in particular about Horodok in Lviv Oblast, Sokal, Yavoriv, Lviv, Terebovlia and others. Artists who collaborated with the publisher include S. Karaffa-Korbut, I. Kryslach and L. Medvid. The publisher is a co-founder of the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Literary Prize "Pryvitannia zhyttia" ("Greeting of Life"), established in 1994.

• 2001

  Began issuing the "Library of Slavic Literature" series.

• 1994

  Co-founded the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Literary Prize "Pryvitannia zhyttia."

• 1964

  Transformed into a republican publishing house under the name Kameniar.

• 1958

  Began publishing the short-story library "Na dobry vechir" (until 1974; restored 1990).

• 1945

  On 25 January, a book-and-journal publishing house was created on the basis of the "Vilna Ukraina" publisher.

• 1941

  Published S. Tudor's "Birth"; work suspended during Nazi occupation.

• 1940

  Published Iryna Vilde's "History of One Life," among its first books.

• 1939

  Founded in autumn as the Lviv regional newspaper publishing house after Western Ukraine joined the USSR.

State-owned multidisciplinary publisher focused on Ukrainian classics, Western Ukrainian literature, translations and scholarly/local-history books.

• Editions of works by Ivan Franko

• Library of Slavic Literature series

• School Library series participation

• Books on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

• Local history books (Horodok, Sokal, Yavoriv, Lviv, Terebovlia)

• Editorial and publishing services

• Wholesale book trade

1. 1видавництво КАМЕНЯР — ГОЛОВНАkamenyar.com.ua
2. 2Kameniar — Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Каменяр — Википедияru.wikipedia.org