Canadian Journal "Slovo Istyny" ("Word of Truth") in Ukrainian Literary Process

The article implements the attempt to demonstrate the presence in Ivan Ohienko's (Metropolitan Hilarion) Canadian journal «Slovo Istyny» («Word of Truth») (1947–1951) of certain manifestations of the Ukrainian literary process on the example of writers (fiction writers, literary critics, prose writers,poets), Leonid Biletskyi, Semen Haievskyi, Volodymyr Doroshenko, Ihor Kachurovskyi, Leonid Mosendz, Petro Odarchenko, Borys Oleksandriv, Yar Slavutych, Mykhaylo Sadylenko. With the help of journal Ivan Ohienko in the difficult period after the end of World War II called on the public to support the writers financially. He regularly provided such assistance and published reports on the facts of writers’ support; words of gratitude for this help, which came from Ukrainian writers, were also published on the pages of the journal. In the journal, Ukrainian writers praised I. Ohienko's work «History of Ukrainian Literary Language," through which the range of writers has expanded significantly, including authors from the Soviet Ukraine. The journal published poetry and prose not only religious (mainly by Metropolitan Hilarion himself) but also secular. Against the backdrop of linguistic fragmentation at the time, writers highly appreciated the high level of literacy inherent in «Slovo Istyny» («Word of Truth»). On the pages of the journal found the place creativity of Ukrainian writers of the previous time, who by that time had already passed away (Spyrydon Cherkasenko, Yuriy Klen). The article also discusses the considerable difficulties faced by I. Ohienko in publishing, in particular, the criticism of a small aviary of the journal «Slovo Istyny» about some attempts to ignore the journal. The direct representation of writers in the journal «Slovo Istyny» is presented against a broader background of the creative path of a particular writer, his connections with Ivan Ohienko. Despite all the representation fragmentation of Ukrainian literary process in the journal «Slovo Istyny», these fragments are still important material without which the overall picture of Ukrainian literature would be incomplete