Publishers' Forum in Lviv is one of the biggest events of Ukrainian publishing life, visiting which has already become a fashion trend for Ukrainian. These days in Lviv on the streets, in cafes everywhere you meet new people, with newly printed books. They read them, browse them and this brings calm and cozy feeling that we have such event and are its members.
Many new publications were presented, meetings with writers and literary readings took place during the Forum. Each day of the Forum was filled with interesting meetings and events:
The world's largest fair of Ukrainian book functioned from 12 to 15 September. Visitors could buy books, take part in the anti-crisis promotions and loyalty programs. Senior citizens, teachers, librarians, readers of Lviv's libraries had a free entrance.
The 8th Lviv International Literary Festival which leads top five fall book events in the world according to Forbes, joined this year more than 370 authors and had 350 events in the program
The guest of honor of the 20th Publishers’ Forum in Lviv became world-renowned philosopher and culturologist Zygmunt Bauman. The philosopher held a public lecture on “A small addition to the long history of social time.”
Festival TRANSLIT - the largest project in Ukraine aimed at promoting the translation work had a public discussion “Street with two-way traffic: Ukrainian translation over the past 20 years” that took place within the framework of the Book Platform Project (supported by the program Culture of the EU Eastern Partnership) involving translators, publishers, authors, scientists and summarizes the results of translation studies into Ukrainian language and from Ukrainian into other languages.
3-day working visits of 15 editors, publishers, cultural journalists from Poland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Scotland, Georgia, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic took place within the framework of the project Editorial Visits, which is supported by Open Ukraine Foundation. The meetings were aimed at a broad presentation of Ukrainian book market to European editors, publishers, cultural journalist, translators.
The night of poetry and music non-stop gathered about 400 visitors. This year's program “Nights ...” includes poetry of Linor Horalik, Klaus Ankersen, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycko, Yuriy Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Ivan Malkovich and others.
The special guest of the business forum became Edward Navotka, founder and chief editor of the portal publishingperspectives.com, which is called “publishing BBC.” He gave a lecture entitled “Is America truly against the world: the truth about Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google” and “Book publishing in the era of globalization: the great, the exciting, what's next?” and also discussed with Ukrainian publishers about copyright, e-books and textbooks.
Grand Prix of this year's Book Award The Best Book of the Forum 2013 was received not by one but by three books: Physics of the Future, Michio Kayku, Malevitch Jean-Claude Markade, Pentateuch, Hrytsko Chub.
Definitely, the 20th Publishers' Forum in Lviv became the most prominent literary event and the team of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation is pleased that it could participate in this event and are eagerly awaiting the next Forum!
Open Ukraine Foundation supports the hosting of the literature festival in Lviv since it has a separate program for promotion of contemporary Ukrainian literature in the West – The Book Fund. As part of the program the grants are provided for translating contemporary Ukrainian literature into foreign languages. So far, more than 20 translations have been published abroad with the support of the Foundation. These are the works by Serhiy Zhadan, Yuriy Andrukhovych, Yuriy Vynnychuk, Yevgeniya Kononenko, Maria Matios, Lyubko Deresh, Andriy Kurkov, Oksana Zabuzhko and other contemporary Ukrainian writers.
