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Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, killed by Russian missile, receives Prix Voltaire Award posthumously

The International Publishers Association honors Amelina's legacy at the 34th Publishers Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, as her work continues to inspire the fight for freedom of expression.

byOlena Mukhina

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Analysis

US academia still in thrall of “great Russia” myth

Terms like "masterpiece" and "genius" were far more likely to describe Russian versus non-Russian content, reflecting what researchers called qualitative bias

byOrysia Hrudka

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Opinion

I’m done believing we’re the stupid ones, Ukrainian soldier tells Jonathan Franzen

In his first hit novel The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen refers to Ukraine as “the Ukraine,” it’s Ukraine’s colonial…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

War is not a metaphor

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Opinion

Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk: “War is not a metaphor”

On 18 June, during the opening of the Berlin Poetry Festival, award-winning Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk made a…

Kotyhoroshko

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Culture of Ukraine

Ukrainian folk tale Kotyhoroshko translated to Japanese, tells story of boy born from peas like Japan’s Momotaro

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Ambassador of…

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How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”

Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…

byChristine Chraibi

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Culture of Ukraine

Eleven books to understand Ukraine’s ongoing struggle: a shortlist by Ukrainian politicians

Read also: The rebirth of Ukrainian literature and publishing: famous contemporary authors and new policy for their support…

Prominent writers and poets of the Russian imperial period include Ukrainians like Nikolai Gogol and ones who grew up in Ukraine like Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov.

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Russian literature no longer has the standing abroad it once had

Russians have long comforted themselves with the fact that however many bad things others can say about them…

byPaul A. Goble

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Culture of Ukraine

PEN award-winning publisher needs your help to promote Ukrainian literature

Kalyna Language Press has been publishing Ukrainian literature in translation since 2013 and its translator Steve Komarnyckyj published…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Culture of Ukraine

What makes a man betray his country? Donbas native tells in novel of Europe’s forgotten war

What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the…

byStephen Komarnyckyj

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“Rebellious pagan” Ukrainian poet Antonych receives English translation

There are some old photographs which seem to preserve the subject in the amber light of a previous…

byStephen Komarnyckyj

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Archive

Ukrainian book on “little things in life” seeks to reach the English reader

Girls Talk Don’t come any closer Don’t come any nearer My vision of you Can’t come any clearer…

byStephen Komarnyckyj

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Opinion

Ukrainian PEN-club appeals to Dutch for solidarity with a new democracy

The Ukrainian PEN-club members have appealed to their colleagues in The Netherlands to support a YES vote in…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Culture of Ukraine

Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance and a kickstarter for one of its modern successors

In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some…

byStephen Komarnyckyj

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Culture of Ukraine

Let the songbird out of the cage – vote for Ukrainian literature

Vote online for the only Ukrainian book ever awarded a PEN award at the PEN World Bookshelf contest. I…

byStephen Komarnyckyj

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Crimea

Burning of Ukrainian-language books continues in Crimea

Oksana Levkova, the Director of the Ukrainian public organization “Ne bud bayduzhym!” (Do not be indifferent!) reported that…