Vasyl Lopata


Vasyl Lopata is a Ukrainian artist and prose writer. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, National Union of Writers of Ukraine. People's Painter of Ukraine, laureate of Shevchenko National Prize, Oles Honchar Literary Prize, Lesya Ukrainka Literary and Art Prize.
In collaboration with B. Maximov he designed the first Ukrainian hryvnia.
Lopata was born in Nova Basan, Bobrovytsia Raion.