Festival of Hope 1 / 26 April 2020

Halyna Kruk reading and Landschaft video

Focus: Ukraine

Poet, translator, literary researcher. The author of the book «Traveling in the House» (1997), «The Traces of the Sand» (1997), «The Face Beyond the Light» (2005) and «Singing / Being» (2013), three children's books and numerous publications in Ukrainian And foreign publications. Works translated into more than 15 languages. Laureate of literary contests «Granoslov» (1996) and «Greeting of Life» by them. B.-I.Antonicha (1996), and a program scholarship (Gaude Polonia (2003, 2010).

Landschaft aka Grigory Semenchuk (Lviv) & Ulrike Almut Sandig (Berlin) stirr their German and Ukrainian poems with hip hop, elektropunk and pop music. Enjoy the sound of poetry.

In light of recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are republishing online events that were held in the frame of one of the two editions of Versopolis'' Festival of Hope.

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Lviv International BookForum

Lviv International BookForum has taken place annually, since 1997, since 2001 with foreigners participating, since 2006 – as a full-scale International Literary Festival within the framework of Publishers’ Forum (Book Fair) in Lviv. It is Ukraine’s largest and the only literary festival, one of the biggest festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. The representatives from all over Ukraine and other countries are invited to participate – writers, poets, artists, cultural activists, scientists, journalists, translators, literary critics.

The Festival is organized by non-profit non-governmental organization Publishers’ Forum, which was founded in 1995. Its aim was to involve all interested people in the development of the Ukrainian Book Publishing, popularization of Ukrainian books and reading, increasing cultural and educational level of Ukrainians. The non-governmental organization deals with project implementations, organization, and arrangement of exhibitions, festivals, presentations, conferences, and other events to favor educational and cultural progress, including such spheres as literature, book publishing, and library.