leading bibliographer of the Odesa National Scientific Library
Lina Kostenko is 96 years old. She avoids the public eye, yet her words have become a shared language across generations and a guide in times of change.
‘Ukraine, with its past, has always been at the centre of pan-European historical and cultural processes.’ Discussion on deconstructing stereotypes about the southern region as a cultural periphery.
This selection is dominated by fiction, but there are also documentary books based on real events - because sometimes reality is more impressive than fiction.