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Ukrainian Book Institute
The Ukrainian Book Institute is a state institution under the Ministry of Culture (Ukraine), Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. It is designed to shape state policy in the book industry, promote book reading in Ukraine, support book publishing, encourage translation activities, and popularize Ukrainian literature abroad. History The Ukrainian book Institute was established in 2016. Rostislav Semkiv was the first elected "acting" director of the institution, and in June 2017, the Institute had an "official" director — Tatiana Teren. She managed to lay the foundations of its activities: prepare documentation, organize working conditions. Six months later, Teren left. Prior to the election of the next director, the duties of the head of the Institute were performed by Sergey Yasinsky, then by Ruslan Mironenko. According to the results of the new competition, which took place on July 26, 2018, the winner was Olexandra Koval, director of the NGO "Forum of publishers." She started worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Sentsov
Oleh Hennadiiovych SentsovNosorih (Rhino) labiennale.org/en/. 2021 (; ; born 14 July 1976) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer, activist and soldier of the from . Sentsov has directed the feature films '''' (2011), ' (2019, co-directed with Akhtem Seitabla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan (pen name: ''Serhiy Zhadan'') (; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian writer, musician, translator, and social activist. In early June 2024, Zhadan posted on his Facebook page that he had joined the 13th "Khartia" Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine which has been in active combat. Life and career Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. He graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in 1996 with a thesis on the work of Mykhaylo Semenko and the Ukrainian Futurist writers of the 1920s. He then spent three years as a graduate student of philology, and taught Ukrainian and world literature from 2000 to 2004. Since then he has worked as a freelance writer. Starting his career in 1990, his verses revolutionized Ukrainian poetry: they were less sentimental, reviving the style of 1920s Ukrainian avant-garde writers like Semenko or Johanssen. And they drew upon his homela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Renaissance Foundation
The International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) () is a Ukrainian NGO founded by George Soros. It was founded in April 1990. IRF is an integral part of the Open Society Foundations which incorporates national and regional foundations in more than thirty countries around the world, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the former Soviet Union. These foundations share a common goal of supporting educational, social and legal initiatives that promote the development and establishment of an open society. Its main objective is to provide financial and operational assistance to the development of an open and democratic society in Ukraine by supporting key civic initiatives in this area. Over the period from 1990 to 2023, the International Renaissance Foundation supported numerous Ukrainian non-governmental organizations, community groups, academic and cultural institutions, publishing houses etc. in the amount of over $350 million. Key areas The International Renaissan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Book Fair
The London Book Fair (LBF) is a large book-publishing trade fair held annually, usually in April, in London, England. LBF is a global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. History In 1971, Lionel Leventhal, with business partner Clive Bingley, organised The Specialist Publishers’ Exhibition for Librarians, with 22 exhibitors displaying titles on tabletops. Subsequently, the scope and influence of the event grew and began to encompass bigger and more general publishers. In 1975, the initials LBF made their first appearance when the fair was renamed SPEX'75: The London Book Fair. By 1977 SPEX had been dropped and the title London Book Fair was born. Until 2006 the London Book Fair had been held at the Olympia exhibition centre, but it moved to the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in Custom House that year. Due to generally unfavourable feedback from attendees over the new location, such as the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voroshilovgrad (novel)
''Voroshilovgrad'' (Voroshylovhrad, ) is a novel by Ukrainian author and social activist Serhiy Zhadan, published in 2010. In 2016, it was translated from Ukrainian into English by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler. '' The Wild Fields'', a film based on the novel, was released in 2018. ''Voroshilovgrad'' won the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year award in 2010, its Book of the Decade award in 2014, and the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in Switzerland in 2014. The novel has been translated at least into nine languages. Background Voroshylovhrad is a city located in Donbas in eastern Ukraine known as Luhansk after the Soviet Union dissolved. English translators from Russia used historical Russian transliteration of the city's name (with ''i'' for ''и'' and ''g'' for ''г'') when initially translated. In an effort to break the colonial tradition of writing names using Russian phonetics, guidelines from the Ukrainian government (with ''y'' for ''и'' and ''h'' for ''г'') tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Fields
''The Wild Fields'' () is a film based on Serhiy Zhadan’s novel " Voroshylovhrad". Its genre is eastern. The film was developed by LIMELITE Production in collaboration with TV Channel "Ukraine", Media Group Ukraine, Ukrainian State Film Agency (Derzhkino) and a Swiss production studio "Film Brut". The film was released in wide distribution in Ukraine on 9 November 2018. The screen version of Serhiy Zhadan's novel has already won The Connecting Cottubs Best Pitch Award 2016, The Connecting Cottubs Producers Network Award 2016, The Connecting Cottubs Pitch Award 2017 and The Connecting Cottubs Work-In-Progress Award 2017. Plot The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas The Donbas (, ; ) or Donbass ( ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. The majority of the Donbas is occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed fr ... after years spent away. He has to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esquire (magazine)
''Esquire'' is an American men's magazine. Currently published in the United States by Hearst Communications, Hearst, it also has more than 20 international editions. Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Great Depression and World War II under the guidance of founders Arnold Gingrich, David A. Smart, and Henry L. Jackson while during the 1960s it pioneered the New Journalism movement. After a period of quick and drastic decline during the 1990s, the magazine revamped itself as a lifestyle-heavy publication under the direction of David M. Granger, David Granger. History ''Esquire'' was first issued in October 1933 as an offshoot of trade magazine ''GQ, Apparel Arts'' (which later became ''Gentleman's Quarterly''; ''Esquire'' and ''GQ'' would share ownership for almost 45 years). The magazine was first headquartered in Chicago and then, in New York City. It was founded and edited by David A. Smart, Henry L. Jackson and Arnold Gingrich. Jackson died in a United Air Lines Flig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko (, born 19 September 1960) is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. Her works have been translated into several languages. Life Zabuzhko was born 19 September 1960 in Lutsk, Ukraine. The writer's father, Stefan (Stepan) Ivanovych Zabuzhko (1926-1983) was a teacher, literary critic, and translator, the first to translate the stories of the Czech composer and writer Ilja Hurník into Ukrainian, and was repressed during Stalin's regime. According to Zabuzhko, she received her philological education at home. The repressions against the Ukrainian intelligentsia that began in September 1965 forced the family to leave Lutsk, and since 1968 she has lived in Kyiv. Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also completed her doctorate in aesthetics in 1987. In 1992, she taught at Penn State University as a visiting writer. Zabuzhko won a Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard Harvard University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Malkovych
Ivan Antonovych Malkovych (; born 10 May 1961 in Nyzhnii Bereziv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a noted Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet and publisher. He is the proprietor of the publishing house "A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha, A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", which specializes in high quality (often illustrated) editions of Ukrainian literature and poetry, and has been a winner of many industry awards. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in 2016. Biography He completed his studies as a violinist at the Music college in Ivano-Frankivsk before entering Kyiv University in 1978, where he majored in Ukrainian philology. He was noted by poet Dmytro Pavlychko who took him under his wing. Malkovych was closely associated with the first Canadian-Ukrainian joint venture known as Kobza and was involved in the setting up of the Chervona Ruta (festival), Chervona Ruta festival of contemporary Music held in Chernivtsi in 1989. Career Malkovych published 6 collections of his own verse: * "White Ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Malyarchuk
Tetiana "Tania" Volodymyrivna Maliarchuk (, , born 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also host ...) is a Ukrainian-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German. Career Tania Maliarchuk began with several volumes of short stories and novellas: ''Adolfo's Endspiel, or A Rose for Liza'' (2004), ''From Top to Bottom: A Book of Fears'' (2006), ''How I Became a Saint'' (2006), ''To Speak'' (2007), and ''Zviroslov'' (2009). Her first novel, ''Biography of an Accidental Miracle'', was published in 2012. Maliarchuk has been writing in German since 2014. In 2018 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Award for ''Frösche im Meer'' (Frogs in the Sea), an unpublished text she read at the Festival of German-Language Literature. Her Ukrainian w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Chekh
Artem Chekh (born Artem Oleksandrovych Cherednyk; Ukrainian: Aртем Олександрович Чередник; born June 13, 1985) is a Ukrainian writer and journalist. As a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine he took part in the War in Donbas and the following Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biography As a child, Artem Cherednyk made a trip to Prague, and since he returned with enthusiasm, Artem's classmates called him "Chekh". In 1997 he graduated from the music school (piano, guitar, flute). For eight years he played in the Cherkasy Drama Theater, studied choreography, choral chanting. In 2002 he graduated from high school in the city of Cherkasy. From 2002 to 2007 he lived in Kyiv, studied at the National Academy of Government Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts of Ukraine at the Faculty of Sociology. Artem Chekh did not work in his specialty for a single day. In December 2008, he moved to live in the village of Mryn Chernihiv Oblast for three years, where he practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
