I came to be bored, then a Ukrainian poet’s reading hit me like a freight train
Victoria Day in Lviv marks the close of the fellowship named for writer Victoria Amelina. A skeptic’s account of an evening about home.
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She left politics alone so long as it left her alone. Then the occupation came
Shevchenko Prize-winning novelist’s story of a woman caught between occupied Donbas and her home village in western Ukraine—published in English for the first time.
The Girl With The Teddy Bear—a 1928 Ukrainian novel that survived Stalin’s purges—reaches English after 97 years
Viktor Domontovych’s 1928 novel survived Stalin’s purges, Soviet censorship, and nearly a century of neglect. Euromaidan Press publishes an exclusive excerpt.
Learn to be fearless and brave from Ukraine, German historian tells Europe
It would perhaps also mean learning how to triumph, Karl Schlögel tells at country's top literary prize
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.
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
I’m done believing we’re the stupid ones, Ukrainian soldier tells Jonathan Franzen
Popular American writer Jonathan Franzen recently gave an interview to Russia's Meduza where he expressed regret that "unfortunate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…