The Ukrainian Week

9 December, 2019	History	Bazhan undesired What was concealed in the Stalin Laureate’s biography?
15 November, 2019	History	Hollywood on the Black Sea coast Odesa in the life of Yuriy Yanovskiy
22 October, 2018	Culture	Yuriy Andrukhovych: “I don’t like banality, so I don’t meet the readers’ expectations” On September 17, Yuriy Andrukhovych visited Kyiv to present Lithography, his new album with the band Karbido, at the Ukrainian Radio’s Recording Studio. Before that, The Ukrainian Week spoke to him about investments in culture, the new generation of writers and Ukraine’s place in the literature map of the world.
23 August, 2016	History	The rise and fall of Avant-garde The 1920s’ Avant-garde school of artists was ultimately destroyed as class enemies—for hooliganism and pornography
8 June, 2016	History	Love, pride and class prejudice The authors, the readers and the anti- bourgeois persecutors of romance novels in the 1920s
23 December, 2015	Culture	Traveller, Hunter and Philosopher The life and death of Mike Johansen, Ukraine’s pioneer of magic realism
3 October, 2013	Culture	Inventor of the Femme Fatale How Leopold von Sacher-Masoch went from writer to masochist
1 August, 2013	Culture	Researching Complexity, Stupidity and Weakness Writer Marina Lewycka talks about Ukrainians in the UK, her writing and the modern era of dishonest people
23 November, 2012	Culture	Ukraine Finds Its Place on the European Bookshelf Ukraine was a Guest of Honour at the Festival of European Literature held November 15-18 in Cognac, France
23 November, 2012	Culture	Anna Shevchenko: It’s important for me to show people that history tends to take revenge The Ukrainian-born British writer Anna Shevchenko talks about her debut novel Bequest and history for the mass audience
12 October, 2012	Culture	Literary Infantilism Ukraine lacks adolescent books by local authors and those writing for teenagers avoid controversy and depict the world through rose-coloured glasses.
23 May, 2012	Culture	Age Means Nothing Artist and playwright Les Podereviansky talks about his personal evolution and people that never change
30 March, 2012	Culture	Cockroach the Star of Vilnius Book Fair Ukrainian author’s detective story becomes a breakthrough hit at the Vilnius Book Fair
21 March, 2012	Culture	The Ukrainian Coelho Myroslav Dochynets has guessed the needs of the average reader
12 March, 2012		Literary Canon: the Art of Remembering The parameters of the classical Ukrainian literature canon have greatly changed over the past years
27 February, 2012	Culture	“I am an apostle of bloody ways” Yevhen Malaniuk as the Ukrainian Freud
25 January, 2012	Culture	Biology of an Author Taras Prokhasko speaks on the fundamental elements of being, models of an ideal Ukraine and his own writings
12 January, 2012	History	Hryhoriy Kochur: Unwavering Translator His translations span 26 centuries, three continents and almost 30 literatures. The Soviets “awarded” him with 10 years in labor camps and the status of a dissident with no right to travel
12 January, 2012	History	Children’s Literature: Lost in Translation? More books for children are translated into Ukrainian than written in the language. Families seem to prefer “popular” classics and books made into Hollywood films
6 December, 2011	Culture	Books for Chicks In the West, there is growing demand for women's literature, the favored genre of young emancipated female megalopolis residents. Ukraine also has books in this genre but they are special in their own way
19 October, 2011	Culture	Galicia Passion Łukasz Saturczak speaks about his novel Galicia and the relationships between Ukrainians and Poles in border regions
10 October, 2011	Culture	Parting Prose German Writer Judith Hermann about Birth of the Text and Death in Life
13 September, 2011	History	Dissident Despite Death Writer and film director Heliy Snehirov was unable to exist in the crushing Soviet atmosphere and paid for freedom with his life
10 September, 2011		Drop Poems, Not Bombs Thomas Wohlfahrt: “Poetry can affect collective consciousness enough to inspire a protest”
9 September, 2011	Culture	Words In Motion Meridian Czernowitz 2011 proves that while poetry knows no boundaries, poets do
2 September, 2011	Culture	Literature’s Long Journeys Ukrainian writers have come down with a bout of travelmania
31 August, 2011	History	Elysium or Barracks? Ivan Franko and his vision of the 20th century
23 August, 2011	Culture	Ulianenko Uncensored August 17 was the first anniversary of the death of Oles Ulianenko, the only officially banned writer in independent Ukraine
22 August, 2011	Culture	The Clarinet And the Pipe A history of genius who refused freedom.
1 August, 2011	Culture	Observations of the King of Mystification Writer Yuriy Vynnychuk talks about the search for new symbols, the literary famine and writers caught up in politics
8 July, 2011	Culture	Widely Known in Narrow Circles In Germany, like in Ukraine, Ukrainian literature is learning the ropes of gaining an audience
16 May, 2011	Culture	Dark age “As in every cultured state, we see lights blinking here and there…”
29 April, 2011	Culture	Mykola Khvylovy’s Two Ribbons With his split views, this national communist leader was bound to face a tragic end
7 March, 2011	Society	Battle Over The Black Raven: Leon Trotsky vs. Oleksandr Feldman Oleksandr Feldman, a dyed-in-the-wool fighter against Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism and the sponsor of a bill he introduced while still a BYuT member and which reflects this crusade, has reached new political heights
25 December, 2010	Culture	Lina Kostenko: I’m Coming Back. I will No Longer Stand Aside The prominent Ukrainian poet speaks on the surreal Babylon of the contemporary world, the special character of Ukrainian madness, and her first prose work