The project was implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan Serhiy Korsunsky notes: “The Japanese are a nation that reads a lot, which is why we wanted to...
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923 by Vasyl Blakytny. Its purpose was “to fight against bourgeois art” and “to attract the proletarian masses...
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Russians have long comforted themselves with the fact that however many bad things others can say about them and their country, foreigners typically have ranked the great Russian writers as among the greatest of all. But now, new surveys...
Kalyna Language Press has been publishing Ukrainian literature in translation since 2013 and its translator Steve Komarnyckyj published his first book of translations in 2011. Our work has been highly praised. The Guardian’s poetry...
What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the backdrop of a war forgotten by Europe. As I write this introduction in February 2017 shells are raining down on a city in...
There are some old photographs which seem to preserve the subject in the amber light of a previous decade. Bohdan Ihor Antonych stares back at us from the thirties, sometimes with owlish spectacles, looking preternaturally boyish. He grew...
The Ukrainian PEN-club members have appealed to their colleagues in The Netherlands to support a YES vote in an upcoming consultative referendum on the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Appealing to the...
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some boys playing football with a human skull. The graves of a vast number of Ukrainians, who had been murdered by the Soviets, were concealed...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
