The spring season of book festivals, fairs, and literary events is beginning in Ukraine. These events will take place in March and May in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipro, Ternopil, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, and other cities, according to the Ukrainian Book Institute on its Facebook page.
“The spring season of book festivals has already begun. We are sharing the dates of events from all over Ukraine so that you can plan your trips and meetings with books and authors,” the organizers said.
According to the published calendar, the National Poetry Reading Week will be held online in March (March 16-22), in Dnipro on March 21, the event “In the Rhythm of Dnipro” will take place, in Ternopil on March 21-22, a festival will be held at the Podolyany shopping center, and in Ivano-Frankivsk from March 31 to April 4, PEN Ukraine will hold a festival-workshop “Propisy.”
In April, the Book Country festival is planned in Kyiv (April 23-26), and Shoduarivska Altanka in Zhytomyr (April 25-26). The event Book Spring in Khmelnytskyi has also been announced.
In May, the festival “Slovo” (May 7-10) will be held in Ivano-Frankivsk, the Children’s Forum: Children’s Reading Festival (May 11-17) in Lviv, Biography Week (May 11-17) in Kyiv, in Poltava – the book exhibition and fair “POSHUK” (May 22-23), in Volodymyr – the festival ‘Krymiada’ (May 23-25), and in Kyiv – “Book Arsenal” (May 28-31).
In addition, the spring calendar also includes VinBookFest in Vinnytsia and the All-Ukrainian Forum of Military Writers in Lviv.
As reported, Ukrainian writer Myroslav Laiuk’s book “Bakhmut” was shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuściński International Award.
