This year Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation became a partner of Lviv Literature Festival, held within the 20th Book Forum in Lviv on September 10-15, 2013.
Besides its support provided to the International Literature Festival, the Open Ukraine Foundation granted its aid to the implementation of Editorial Visits Project, aimed at creating comfortable conditions of cooperation of Ukraine and EU-countries’ book market participants. Within this project editors, publishers, cultural journalists and lit crits from eight countries of the world (Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland, Armenia, the USA, Russia and Sweden) were invited to the Festival in Ukraine in order to acquaint them with Ukrainian book market and enhance their interest in publishing our authors in their home countries.
Tereziya Yatsenyuk, the Head of the Supervisory Council of the Open Ukraine Foundation, emphasized that this project is a significant contribution to the development of cultural cooperation and translation process in different countries: «First of all it will create favorable conditions for increase in the number of translations from Ukrainian into foreign languages in the following years». She also pointed out that «Nothing contributes better to the country’s reputation like the culture. In particular, contemporary Ukrainian literature with its very dynamic development, and we have what to demonstrate to the world community».
It should be noted that the world’s largest Ukrainian book fair with about 100 000 books represented, as well as the 8th Lviv International Literature Festival with its 263 events planned and 362 presentations by authors from Ukraine and 23 countries of the world, would become the major events of this year festival.
Besides popular Ukrainian writers – Yuriy Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Lyuko Dashvar – Lviv waits to see Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish film director and writer, Jeremy Strong, a world-famous English children’s author, Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian novelist, and actor Valentin Gaft. The guest of honour will be Zygmunt Bauman, English sociologist and cultural scholar of Polish descent.
FOR INFORMATION:
About the Open Ukraine Foundation: The Open Ukraine Foundation is established at the initiative of Arseniy Yatsenyuk for strengthening and development of Ukraine’s reputation in the world. The Foundation is approaching its goals through implementing of the key programs: International Dialogue, Cultural Horizons and Young Leaders. The Foundation is an organization of a wide range of benefactors and consolidates around people who cares about Ukraine’s reputation and its future. More details on the Foundation may be found on the web-page: http://openukraine.org.
About Book Fund Program: Book Fund — is a grant program of contemporary Ukrainian literature translations, sponsored by the Open Ukraine Foundation. The Open Ukraine Foundation is the only foundation in Ukraine that provides grants for translation of contemporary Ukrainian literature into foreign languages. The translations of national writings improve image of Ukraine in the world, facilitate intercultural understanding and exchange of cultural values. As of today with the support of the Foundation about 20 translations have been issued. These are the works by Sergiy Zhadan, Yuriy Andrukhovych, Yuriy Vynnychuk, Yevgeniya Kononenko, Maria Matios, Lyubko Deresh, Andriy Kurkov, Oksana Zabuzhko and other modern Ukrainian writers.
