of maksym rylskyi, which has more than 50 years, and which, as they say, even in those... times of stagnation, when the shevchenko prize was given there for works of socialist realism, the maximy prize was equally awarded to very worthy people, very worthy translators, that is, this prize is very important, very authoritative, and last week the maksym rylsky award committee announced the names of the 2023 award winners, the award was awarded. in particular, to dmytro drozdovsky, a scientist, literary critic, and eandry shepard, a translator, from russian, for the translation into english of a collection of irpin texts children irpin my home. the problem is that dmytro druzdovsky, a literary critic and researcher at the institute of literature , has been accused of plagiarism more than once and is in... the conclusion of the commission of the institute of literature that 60.64% of one of his scientific works is plagiarized, and the problem is that that this andrew shepard, who allegedly translated the works of the irpin children together with dmytro drozdovsky, is a translator really from russian and is the editor of the journal of the british-russian society east-west review,