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...
Vote online for the only Ukrainian book ever awarded a PEN award at the PEN World Bookshelf contest. I met Ihor Pavlyuk, whose poems I have translated for A Flight Over the Black Sea, in by the Shevchenko monument in Lviv...
Oksana Levkova, the Director of the Ukrainian public organization “Ne bud bayduzhym!” (Do not be indifferent!) reported that the books were intended for the Naval Lyceum in Crimea, which currently has no need of Ukrainian...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
