The Open Ukraine Foundation supports the hosting of the literature festival in Lviv since it has a separate program for promotion of contemporary Ukrainian literature on the West - «Book Fund». As part of the program the grants are provided for translating contemporary Ukrainian literature intoyf foreign languages. So far, more than 20 translations have been published abroad with the support of the Foundation. These are the works by Sergiy Zhadan, Yuriy Andrukhovych, Yuriy Vynnychuk, Yevgeniya Kononenko, Maria Matios, Lyubko Deresh, Andriy Kurkov, Oksana Zabuzhko and other contemporary Ukrainian writers.
Please visit a booth No113 of the Open Ukraine Foundation, where you can learn more about the Foundation’s activities and projects.
The Venue of the Forum: The Arts Palace, 17 Kopernik street
For this year Forum’s program please go to the website http://bookforum.ua
FOR INFORMATION:
The 20th Anniversary «Lviv Book Forum» – is a variety of projects and events that will take place on 10-15 September 2013. Those include Lviv International Literature Festival, Book Fair, All-Ukrainian Contest «The Best Book of the Forum», Library Forum, «Young Republic of Poets» Festival and Competition and much more.
The Open Ukraine Foundation is established at the initiative of Arseniy Yatsenyuk for strengthening and development of Ukraine’s reputation in the world. Within its Cultural Horizons program the Foundation provides support to the contemporary Ukrainian literature as well as provides travel grants to Ukrainian artists representing the best samples of modern Ukrainian visual arts and literature in the European cultural space.
Book Fund Program — 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.
