In 1990 she obtained Ph.D. in Philology from the Institute of Art History, Folkloristics and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Social Republic.
Between 1996 and 2006 she is 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 obtained her Ph.D. in History.
Married to Ihor Ostash and has two children.
Novels and Translations
As a student Hrymych published her first translations from Slovenian, Serbian-Croat and Macedonian languages. At this time appear as well her first poems in Dnipro and Zhovten literary magazines. Since 2000 works as a novelist and essay writer. Maryna Hrymych is a versatile author of 8 novels, two book translations, and a number of essays. She is a prize-winner of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova. Since 2004 Member of the Writers Union of Ukraine.
Academic career
Started 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. During her work at the International School of Ukrainian Studies developed methodology for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. 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 on customary law relates to three scientific fields – ethnology, history and law. Hrymych is an experienced field-worker – conducted ethnological and anthropological field work throughout Ukraine and in a number of other countries. Author of 2 monographs, 2 manuals and a great number of scientific articles and papers. Awarded Taras Shevchenko Award for her monograph Property Institution in the Customary Law Culture of the Ukrainians in the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Member of the Canadian Union of Ethnology.
Publishing
In 2004 founded and took the lead of the specializing in modern Ukrainian literature and scientific works of ethnological character. In 2004 and 2005 Duliby was awarded a number of prizes of the Lviv Publishers Forum.
Novels
Do You Hear, Margo? - Prize of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova
Bartholomew’s Night - Prize of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova
Magdalynky
Egoist – First Prize of the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition Koronatsiya Slova
Red Poppy in the Dew
Frida
White Owl Island
Second Life
Letyuchiy Smittyevoz
Scientific works
Traditional Worldview and Ethno-Psychological Constants of the Ukrainians
Property Institution in the Customary Law Culture of the Ukrainians in the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries - Taras Shevchenko Award, 2005, 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
Maryna Hrymych novels on the BBC Book of the Year – 2010
