Meet

Serhiy Zhadan

One-Zhadan theater: When popular literature becomes popular theatrical performance

Tanja Maljartschuk

Tanja Maljarschuk: ‘Homeland is the place where your wounds come from’

Greece

Krystalli Glyniadakis: In Greek poetry, the political becomes personal

russian-ukrainian war

Three writers in the war zone: ‘Three and a half years later, we are still here’

ambassadors

Daisy Gibbons: It’s interesting that so many “giants” of Russian literature often worked in Ukraine or came from Ukraine

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Yuriy Skira talks about Lviv’s “life-saving factory” during the Holocaust

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Stanisław Lem’s darkest star

CELA

Julija Lukovnjak: We don’t notice thousands of good writers living normal, unsuccessful lives

CELA

Magdalena Sodomkova: All my work is trying to make people active

ambassadors

Nina Murray: Poetry in the US is read by academics and soldiers

ambassadors

Andreas Umland: The war on Ukraine makes a Russian breakup more plausible

Drahomán Prize

Eero Balk: Our elders warned us that the KGB might try to recruit us

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