'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena Savage
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion
On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their country. This anthology brings together writing from inside Ukraine, by Ukrainians, available in English for the first time. Here they document everyday life, ponder the role of culture amid conflict, denounce Russian imperialism and revisit...
Since 2007 Mark Andryczyk has been teaching Ukrainian literature at Columbia University and administering the Ukrainian Studies Program at its Harriman Institute. He is author of the monograph ‘The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction’ (University of Toronto Press, 2012) – Ukrainian edition (Piramida, 2014) – and a translator of Ukrainian literature into English. He is editor and compiler of Writing From Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 (Penguin, 2022).
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