Mykola Chaban

Mykola Chaban (Ukrainian: Микола Петрович Чабан) is a Soviet and Ukrainian journalist, a Ukrainian prose writer, specialist in regional studies of Dnipropetrovsk region. He is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine (2007).

Mykola Chaban was born in Dnipropetrovsk on March 5, 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology at the Dnipropetrovsk State University (specialization - "Ukrainian language and literature"). Since then Chaban worked in newspapers of Dniprodzerzhynsk and Dnipropetrovsk. Currently he works at a Dnipropetrovsk regional newspaper "Zoria" as an editor on cultural issues.

Membership

• National Writers Union of Ukraine
• All-Ukrainian Union of regional researchers
• International Association of Belarusian Studies

Awards

• Valerian Pidmohylny National Writers Union of Ukraine Award (2004)
• Khoroshun Award (1993)
• Dmytro Yavornytsky honorary diploma (1994) for the book "Sicheslav in heart"
• Person of the Year (Dniprodzerzhynsk 1995) as journalist
• Honors of Mayor of Dniprodzerzhynsk (2004) for the book "Journey through old Kamianske"
• Laureate of year by the periodical "Courier of Kryvbas" (1994, 1995)

External links

• Profile at the Literary Dnipropetrovsk Land
• Profile at the Dnipropetrovsk region library (cached)
• In Dnipropetrovsk was presented a book about one of the most mysterious writers. Radio Svoboda. January 14, 2013.
• Ratsybarska, Yu. In Dnipropetrovsk honoring memory of the Ukrainian People's Republic warriors. "Radio Svoboda". January 4, 2013.
• Interview of Mykola Chaban to a local TV channel
• Same interview from the original source