According to the Interfax-Ukraine Culture project, “this year, the competition received 179 applications from publishers around the world—experts at the Ukrainian Book Institute received 18 more applications than last year. A total of 176 projects submitted by 119 publishers from 44 countries passed the technical screening. Based on the evaluation results, the Expert Council approved 100 translation projects. According to the plan, all of them will be published this year,” the Institute stated in its announcement.
It is noted that the most translations are planned into Polish—9 publications, English—8, Serbian—7, followed by Czech and German—6 publications each, and 5 books will be published in Arabic, French, and Italian.
“In total, Ukrainian books will be translated into 30 languages. In addition to those mentioned, the list includes Slovak, Spanish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Macedonian—4 books each; Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Georgian—3 each; and Swedish, Azerbaijani, Portuguese, and Bengali—2 each. One book each will be published in Finnish, Romanian, Hebrew, Japanese, Estonian, Hungarian, Danish, Albanian, and Bosnian,” the UIC reported.
The Institute noted that foreign publishers were most interested in the book on modern warfare *Hemingway Knows Nothing* by Artur Dron; specifically, it will be published in Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, English, Slovak, Georgian, French, and Portuguese.
In addition, Illarion Pavliuk’s mystical detective novel *I See You Are Interested in Darkness* will be available to Finnish, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Azerbaijani readers, while Sofia Andrukhovych’s *Amadok* is set to be published in French, Spanish, Lithuanian, and Azerbaijani.
A detailed list of the winning projects is available at the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LqUVQOfAiPASGYxuIpLqJwjTnj3giqZsaIOWIYO2eRg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
As reported, 75 new translations of Ukrainian books have been published as part of the Translate Ukraine 2025 program.
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