Oleh Kotsarev

There was a festival recently, “From a country to Ukraine.” That was a tour of musicians, poets, artists, modern technology professionals, and certainly cultural managers across the cities of east and south. The tour included concerts, workshops, readings, competitions, and other events...

This book describes and analyzes the prose of post-Soviet Kharkiv. The particular attention of Zaharchenko is paid to Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism of the Kharkiv prose, and to the intersection of cultures and identities, which are reflected in these works. Her analysis is largely based on the...

The exhibit “Great Expectations” is underway at the gallery Khlibnia, Sophia of Kyiv Preserve. It showcases the samples of Ukrainian pictorial art of the 1960s (to be more precise, late 1950s – early 1970s).The difference of the exposition from the prevailing interpretation of the...

A young, but already well-known, Polish writer Jacek Dehnel was one of the guests at this year’s Book Arsenal. The publishing house Komora timed the publication of a Ukrainian translation of his book Saturn. Black Images from the Lives of Men of Goya Family namely to this event. This novel is...

Writer’s House in Kyiv held a poetry evening dedicated to two Latvian poets – Rainis (Janis Plieksans, 1865-1929) and Aspazija (Elza Rozenberga-Plieksane, 1868-1943). It was presided by Raul Chichalava, poet, translator, and the compiler of Tricolor Sun, a trilingual edition of the...

The perception of Kharkiv is mostly associated with its industrial or commercial capacity; the list of popular impressions was updated recently with the precarious political situation, attempts at pro-Russian riots past spring and the city’s threatening proximity to Russian border....

On January 21 the Kyiv bookstore Ye held the awarding ceremony of the annual literature prize “LitAktsent of the Year,” founded by the Internet publication LitAktsent.The host and editor of the website LitAktsent Iryna Troskot told shortly about the system of defining the winners. On...

The famous Czech artist called her photo exhibition “Retreat of Soviet Troops from Czechoslovakia” (the project is a part of celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague). The topic of this exhibition is extremely relevant in present-day Ukraine, say the...

KYIV – Last week Taras Shevchenko National University hosted a meeting with Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, college professor, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. This event came as a surprise for...

On September 4 the film screenings “Echo of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival,” organized by the Czech Center in Kyiv, began at Les Kurbas National Center of Theater Art.Jihlava is a huge annual festival of documentary films held in the eponymous Czech town. Actually, the...