Meet

2025 Shevchenko National Prize

What’s in our love for Yuri Izdryk

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Zuzanna Ginczanka’s centaurs, galloping at the intersection of three cultures

Liza Zharikova

Poet and soldier Liza Zharikova: Ideally, my collection should be presented while I’m still alive

ambassadors

Natalia Feduschak: The Ukrainian Jewish world opened up, captivated me, and kept my interest

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Paul Celan: Avant-garde poet after Auschwitz

pavlo matyusha

Pavlo Matyusha: The very fact that we stood firm is already a victory

ambassadors

Vitaly Chernetsky: Ukraine is a fresh and powerful collocutor with unique expertise

Debora Vogel

Debora Vogel: Bringing literature closer to the imagery of avant-garde art

interview

A choice we need to make: Michal Hvorecký on opposition culture and Slovak authorities

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Setting Ukrainians and Jews against each other. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern on the Soviet “friendship of peoples”

Chytomo Spotlights

Amidst drone and missile attacks, Kharkiv publisher launches ‘Book Strongroom,’ a bomb shelter-bookstore, to preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Sofia Andrukhovych: To survey a large territory, you need to step back in space, time, and emotion

reading

Mykola Riabchuk: Reading demands a cosmopolitan mindset

ambassadors

Charlotte Higgins: Understanding Ukraine through its cultural expressions is vital

ambassadors

‘People who go into battle with a joke on their lips’: Interview with Boris Dralyuk