Ivan Franko Institute of NAS of Ukraine had been created on the basis of Lviv branch of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Among the most important tasks of the Institute, except priority direction of Franko studies and writing of «Ivan Franko encyclopedia», there are researching of Ukrainian literature of the XIX–XXI centuries in Ukraine and in the Diaspora, studying of the emigration literature and literary criticism.