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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.
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On 19 March at 8.00 pm, the Salle Colonne in Paris will host a musical and literary event entitled Vasyl Stus, Herald and Poet of Ukraine. The event will be opened by the French Slavicist…
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Ukrainian poet and servicewoman Yaryna Chornohuz has embarked on a tour of five cities in Ireland. The series of events will take place on 16–20 February and is dedicated to the fourth…
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On the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a special edition of the poetic and musical project Voices of Dignity will take place in Denmark. The…
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A public discussion dedicated to Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine’s national poet and one of the key anti-imperial voices of the 19th century, took place in the Mahasweta Devi Hall as part…
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Ukrainian poetry was featured at one of the world’s most prestigious literary events, the Jaipur Literature Festival 2026. As part of the programme, poet Yuliya Musakovska took part…
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Ukrainian poet Yuliya Musakovska has won the Asian Prize for Poetry 2025. She received the award for her poem Natural Disaster from the book Stones and Nails, translated by Olena Jennings…
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The annual literary and artistic project ‘Second Autumn’ was held in Drohobych to the 83rd anniversary of the death of writer and artist Bruno Schulz.
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Yurko Pokalchuk was a groomsman at Vasyl Stus' wedding, and later became a mentor for a whole generation — Serhiy Zhadan, Irena Karpa, Lyubko Deresh.
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The Ukrainian Institute in Sweden has presented the first Swedish anthology of poetry from the Executed Renaissance — a generation of Ukrainian artists from the 1920s and 1930s destroyed…
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On 23 July, the largest cross-border literary festival in Central Europe – the Month of Author Readings (MAR) in Lviv – kicked off. The festival organisers announced this on their…
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The Stih u regiji / SUR 2025 International Poetry Festival is taking place in Zagreb from 26 to 29 June, bringing together authors from more than ten countries. The programme includes…
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Ukrainian writer Lyubov Yakymchuk took part in Poetry International Rotterdam in the Netherlands, one of the most prestigious poetry festivals in the world. She read her poem I have…
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On 12 June, children and teenagers from across Ukraine shared their experiences of living through war and expressed their common desire for peace in the book Poems for Peace. The book…
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On her way back from the World Poetry Slam Championships in Ciudad Juárez, Chivas, Olena Herasymiuk – a Ukrainian writer, veteran, and paramedic with the Hospitallers Volunteer Medical…