Abstract
The article deals with an open group of Ukrainian poets living in Prague in the interwar Czechoslovakia, as well as authors aligned with them. It describes a key moment of the formation of national identity in the context of immigrant community and emphasizes the common features of their work rooting from the trauma of the loss of their homeland.
The article also mentions how Dmytro Doncov's nationalist concept influenced some of the writers' work. However controversial this bond might seem today, for them this concept was an understandable attempt to find a refuge from their predicament.
Special attention is paid to their most significant representative, Yevhen Malanyuk, who seems to have most distinctively developed an elaborate historiographical conception, through which he interpreted the present. Other important writers to be mentioned are Olena Teliha, Yuriy Klen, Leonid Mosendz, Oleh Olzhych, Oksana Lyaturynska, Halya Mazurenko.