July’s Digest: festivals to be back, 607 destroyed libraries and Germany’s Support

Chytomo summarizes the most important news of the last month in Ukrainian culture at war. These weeks have been full of losses and announcements of prominent book publishing events and awards.

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Germany announced €900,000 support to Ukrainian publishing industry

The German Publishers and Booksellers Association will head up the project, working in close cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, the Ukrainian Book Institute, the cultural institution Mystetskyi Arsenal, the online literary and cultural magazine Chytomo, and the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine.

Zabuzhko and Sentsov receive the Legion of Honor

French President Emmanuel Macron has awarded writer and publicist Oksana Zabuzhko and filmmaker, writer and soldier Oleg Sentsov with France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honor.

The XIV Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival will be held offline

XIV Meridian Czernowitz announces dates – on September 8-10 in Chernivtsi. The participants of MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ are well-known poets from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and others.

Book Forum 2022 design wins the Red Dot Design Award

The agency is convinced that BookForum’s identity does not exist in a vacuum, but rather interacts with the world. With the help of visual language, Plai Büro aimed to explain to the world community what Ukraine and its book festivals are like in times of escalating Russian-Ukrainian war.

Since the invasion, russia destroyed 607 Ukrainian libraries

Due to the full-scale invasion, 1605 cultural infrastructure facilities were damaged or destroyed.

Fundraiser for the festival founded by Victoria Amelina announced

PEN Ukraine has announced a fundraiser to support the New York Literary Festival in the Donetsk region.

For now, we are focused on book publishing and literature in Ukraine, meanwhile over the next motnhs we plan to cover more news from Eastern and Central Europe. If you have important news to share with editorial, don’t hesitate to write us: chytomo@gmail.com