Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation within the program «Travel grants for artists» maintained the writer from Lviv Galyna Shyyan, who represented Ukraine at the festival of short prose «Kikindi Short» in Serbia from 28th June to 2nd July 2016.
Within the festival Galyna Shyyan took part in the readings on the courtyard of the Jovan Popovich National Library (city Kikinda) and readings in Szeged. Ukrainian also joined the discussion panel, where together with colleagues from Germany, Jordan, Israel, Morocco discussed topical issues of literature in times of crisis.
According to the writer, during the event she had an opportunity to establish contacts with many authors from other countries and to communicate with foreign publishers. By the way, the Serbian interested in publishing of a novel of Ukrainian «Hunt, Doctor, Hunt!». So, the negotiations concerning translation and printing abroad are being held.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
Galyna Shyyan is Ukrainian translator and writer. By education she is a classical philologist. In 1999 together with her sister Anastasia Shyyan she established foreign literature bookstore «HalinBook».
In 2001 she graduated the Lviv University and received a specialty «classical philology». In 2012 in «League Press» she published a translation of the novel of Booker winner DBC Pierre «Light extinguished in Wonderland» (edited by Yuri Andrukhovych). On the basis of the work the project «Decadance bere svoye» was created under the brand name «Batrahomiomahia» on the website http://btrmiomax.com/
In 2014 in the «Old Lion Publishing House» debut novel by Galina Shyyan «Hunt, doctor, Hunt!» was published. This book was called the most expected by the Forum of Publishers in 2014.
In 2014 she joined the storybook «Volunteers» by the story «Gusin» (CSD, 2014). In the same year as the co-owner of the bookstore she began the activity aimed at destroying the practice of opaque and corrupt practices in the procurement of textbooks. In 2015 Galina Shyyan created an author course «Creative writing with Tilo Schulz. The story for the weekend» (Yizdets, 2015).
She participated in literary festivals in Edinburgh, Kyiv, Lviv, Zaporizhia.
The Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation provides travel grants for travel costs for Ukrainian artists to exchange artistic experience at the international level and to improve cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign artists. These grants give Ukrainian artists the opportunity to present their achievements around the world.
