2025 Chytomo Award reveals nominees advancing past technical selection

10.11.2025

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2025 Chytomo Award for outstanding achievements in book publishing, has revealed the list of organizations and cultural figures that passed the technical selection stage.

A total of 82 applications were submitted for the 2025 award, with 65 successfully passing the technical evaluation. This year highlights a pattern of repeated nominations, as several organizations suggested the same initiatives or individuals again.

The highest number of submissions (45.1%) were in the category “Book Initiative for the Promotion of Reading.”

Breakdown of applications by category:

“Trendsetter of the Publishing Market” — 23 (28%);

“Book Initiative for the Promotion of Reading” — 37 (45.1%);

“Ambassador of Ukrainian Books” — 22 (26.8%).

Nominees who passed the technical lection:

“Book Publishing Market Trendsetter” category

Abuk
Bilka Publishing house
Babylon Library Publishing House
Vivat Publishing LTD
Krapky Publishing
Komubook Publishing House
Osnovy Publishing
Ranok Publishing House
One More Page Publishing
UA Comix Publishing
Sense Bookstore
Knigoland
KBU Awards Book Prize

14, Projector Publishing

Ukrainian Book Institute
School of Creative and Professional Writing Litosvita

“Book Initiative That Promotes Reading” category

Vivat Publishing LTd
Publishing House Zhorzh
My Bookshelf Publishing LLC
Murkit Publishing House
The national Ukrainian competition of literary podcasts (litcasts) KruteZNO
National Literary Tour “What Is It? Ukrainian Literature
Nationwide radio dictation of national unity
Frontera Literary Platform
DIVOCHE.MEDIA
The “Vivat Classics” Initiative
The “Book to the Front” initiative, Cultural forses
Lviv Regional Children`s Library
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Mykola Rachok Memorial Bookstore “Heroes”
VinBookFest Book Festival
Kolo komedii
Literature Association FANTASTIC TALK(S)
Literary podcast “Zapakh Slova”
Odesa City Letters
Mykolaiv Regional Universal Scientific Library
National Book Platform Yakaboo
Nedopysani
Reading promotion program «Tekstura»
A project for parents “Where Do Readers Grow Up?”
Read on the Metro Project
Svoya Polytsya
Kharkiv Book Festival “Literary Fair”, Serhiy Zhadan Charitable Foundation
Kharkiv Literary Museum
Khorunzhyi Service of the 2nd Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine “Khartia”
T.G.Shevchenko Central Library for Children of Kyiv
Youtube-channel Shaleni Avtor(k)y

“Ambassador of Ukrainian Books” category

André Störr, Managing Director of Friedrich Mauke Verlag, Germany, Weimar
Viktoriya Matyusha, founder of the Ovo Literary Agency
Halyna Kruk, Ukrainian writer, translator
Igor Horków, Head of the Ukrainian People’s House in Przemyśl
Imadeddin Raef Sahmarani, Lebanese writer, journalist, translator
Claudia Dathe, German translator, project coordinator at the University of Tübingen, one of the initiators of the Translit association
Michael Tate, co-founder of Jantar Publishing
Natalia Popovich, Director of the Ukrainian House in Denmark
Oksana Lushchevska, Ukrainian writer, translator, member of PEN Ukraine
Dr. Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine Krytyka
Aleksandr Krasovytskyy, Founder and CEO of Folio Publishing House
Olena Medvedieva, author of embroidered books, founder of the art publishing house “Creative Book”
Sana Dutka, writer, volunteer at Ukrainian Radio in the Netherlands, Instagram Serhiy Opanasenko, Head of the Digital Transformation Department at the Ukrainian Book Institute
Tamara Horikha Zernia, Ukrainian writer, translator, and volunteer
Yuliia Iliukha, Ukrainian author, journalist
Yuliya Kozlovets, Director of the International Book Arsenal Festival, Facebook 17. Yuliya Musakovska, Ukrainian poet, translator, member of Ukrainian PEN

The Chytomo Award, recognizing outstanding achievements in the Ukrainian book publishing and literary sphere, was launched in 2023. The award is presented annually toward the end of the year to honor the most remarkable achievements which contribute to the development of the book market and the industry as a whole, as well as to the promotion of reading.

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