Founded in 2001, The Day‘s Library Series has now grown to eight books. The last one, Dzheims Meis: “Vashi mertvi vybraly mene...” (James Mace: “Your Dead Chose Me”) was launched at the Lviv Publishers Forum, which ended not long ago. The Lviv and Moscow book fairs have once again confirmed that The Day‘s Library Series has retained its relevance over time. Its books are acquiring new meaning and gaining wider popularity among readers with an interest in the sociopolitical changes taking place in Ukraine and the world.
The Ukraine Incognita series has been a great success at all past book fairs. Both in Moscow and in Lviv many people have read Two Rus’es, only one of the books in this series with a forceful title. This volume explores the complex relations between two countries and nations-Ukraine and Russia-throughout their shared history.
The book Wars and Peace, published in Ukrainian and Polish, is a real godsend for historians and people who are interested in Ukrainian-Polish relations in the historical perspective. Poles have recently taken a liking to the Lviv Publishers Forum and started reading our books in order to “take a fresh look at Ukraine and learn the truth about the relations between Ukrainians and Poles,” some Polish visitors to the Lviv book fair said.
The recently published book James Mace: “Your Dead Chose Me”, is a collection of writings by the distinguished researcher of the Holodomor in Ukraine, historian, and contributor to The Day. In Lviv the book was The Day‘s best seller. This is the third volume in the newspaper’s series on the Holodomor. In 2005 Den i vichnist Dzheimsa Meisa (Day and Eternity of James Mace), a collection of Mace’s newspaper articles on the Holodomor, was published in Ukrainian and English.
In 2007 The Day published the Russian-language book Za chto on nas unichtozhal? Stalin i Golodomor v Ukraine 1932-1933 godov (Why Did He Destroy Us? Stalin and the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933). This is a collection of articles by the prominent historian Stanislav Kulchytsky. The choice of language was dictated by the author’s desire to convey the truth about the Holodomor specifically to the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine and to Russians. This book was one of the most popular ones at the Moscow Book Fair.
The Lviv Publishers Forum was attended by a number of our readers. Below are some of their comments on the books published in our newspaper’s Library Series.
Maria FERNEZA, owner of an advertising agency, Lviv:
“I have three sons. One of them is a university freshman, while the other two go to school. They are all interested in the subject of the Holodomor in Ukraine, and Ukraine’s history in general. They read a lot of Ukrainian history. I am happy that my children read books and have the ability and, more importantly, the desire to read even though each one of them has his own computer with Internet access. I bought the book James Mace: “Your Dead Chose Me“ for them. It is extremely important to know our own history and to know who we are and where we have come from.”
Roman TYNKEVYCH, government official:
“I am Ukrainian, and I rejoice over everything that has been produced by Ukrainian thinkers. Without Ukrainian thought we will not have our own state in the European dimension. It would be very good if we could return to our ancestors’ mentality. This is what hurts me. The Day has been satisfying my historical curiosity to the fullest extent. And the Lviv Publishers Forum is an extremely important event. I am on sick leave now, but even so, I couldn’t miss it. It is great to see The Day’s stand here.”
Bohdan LIASHCHUK, math teacher at Lviv College, State Information-Communication Technology University:
“I have been familiar with The Day since 1998. It has always been unbiased and non-partisan in its interpretation of facts and, to its credit, also pro-Ukrainian. I am very thankful for the articles on history. I remember a recent article that described how the Soviet government fought against its own people. You will not find this in most newspapers. It is great that all important articles are eventually published in The Day’s Library Series. I have enjoyed Klara Gudzyk’s Apocrypha. She is one of the most interesting journalists at this newspaper. Today I am here to buy Two Rus’es to complete my collection of Ukraine Incognita and to see what else is new in the Library Series.”
Eight hundred and twenty publishing houses, bookstores, and authors participated in the Lviv Publishers Forum. Most of them brought their newly published books to present to the public and the jury. While visitors could buy as many books as they wanted or were able to afford, the jury faced the much more complicated task of choosing the best of the best according to content, design, and printing quality. Here are the results.
WINNERS OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE 2008 PUBLISHERS FORUM AWARD
Grand prix: William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Translated into Ukrainian by Yurii Andrukhovych (A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha Publishers, Kyiv).
15 best books of the XV Lviv Publishers Forum:
1. Natsionalnyi atlas Ukrainy (National Atlas of Ukraine, DNVP “Kartohrafiia,” Kyiv)
2. Velykyi holod v Ukraini 1932-1933 rr. (The Great Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933), 4 vols. (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, Kyiv).
3. Ukrainska Povstanska Armiia: Istoriia neskorenykh (The Ukrainian Insurgent Army: The History of the Unvanquished, the Liberation Movement Research Center, Lviv).
4. Entsyklopediia Lvova (Encyclopedia of Lviv, Litopys, Lviv).
5. Anno Domini = Roku Bozhoho: Latynski napysy Lvova (Anno Domini = In the Year of the Lord: Latin Inscriptions in Lviv, Piramida Literary Agency, Lviv).
6. Arkhitektura Lvova. Styl i chas (The Architecture of Lviv: Style and Time, Tsentr Yevropy Publishers, Lviv).
7. Dziuba, Ivan, Taras Shevchenko. Zhyttia i tvorchist. (Taras Shevchenko: His Life and Works, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, Kyiv).
8. Shevchuk, Valerii, Piznanyi i nepiznanyi sfinks. Hryhorii Skovoroda suchasnymy ochyma (The Known and Unknown Sphinx: Hryhorii Skovoroda through Contemporary Eyes, Pulsary University Publishing House, Kyiv).
9. Stus, Vasyl, Taborovyi zoshyt (Camp Notebook, Fakt Publishers, Kyiv).
10. Franko, Ivan, Halytsko-ruski narodni prypovidky (Galician-Ruthenian Folk Sayings), 3 vols. (Ivan Franko Lviv National University Press, Lviv).
11. Bushak, Stanislav, Kozak Mamai (Cossack Mamai, Rodovid Publishers, Kyiv).
12. Romaniv-Triska, Oksana, Narodna ikona na skli (Folk Icons on Glass, Institute for the Collection of Ukrainian Artistic Monuments of the Shevchenko Scientific Society).
13. Sydor, Oleh, Sviatyi Vasylii Velykyi v ukrainskomu mystetstvi (Saint Basil the Great in Ukrainian Art, Misioner Publishers, Lviv).
14. Ukrainska mala proza XX stolittia: Antolohiia (Ukrainian Short Prose of the XXth Century: An Anthology, Fakt Publishers, Kyiv).
15. Po odnomu virshu sta poetiv (One Verse Each from One Hundred Poets, Hrani-T Publishers, Kyiv).
Special awards:
1. Best Book about Lviv:
Anno Domini = Roku Bozhoho: Latynski napysy Lvova (Anno Domini = In the Year of Our Lord: Latin Inscriptions in Lviv, Piramida Literary Agency, Lviv).
2. Best Book Series:
Vysoka polytsia (High Shelf, Fakt Publishers, Kyiv)
3. Best Design:
Gogol, Nikolai, Peterburzhskie povesti (St. Petersburg Stories, Hrani-T Publishers, Kyiv).
4. Best Typography:
Bushak, Stanislav, Kozak Mamai (Cossack Mamai, Rodovid Publishers, Kyiv).
5. The Book You Want to Own:
Anno Domini = Roku Bozhoho: Latynski napysy Lvova (Anno Domini = In the Year of Our Lord: Latin Inscriptions in Lviv, Piramida Literary Agency, Lviv).
