We are continuing our conversation about the image of the Jew and the depictions of the Jewish community in twentieth-century Ukrainian literature. Our guest on the show is Myroslav Shkandrij, a literary historian, art specialist,...

How have Ukrainian writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century described Jews? Can one track certain trends? We spoke about the image of the Jew and the depiction of the Jewish community in Ukrainian...

We spoke to Lilia Omelianenko, the co-founder of the Vydavnytstvo publishing house, about the debut of a graphic novel about Anne Frank. Iryna Slavinska: Is this a film adaptation or a comicization of the diary?...

Part 2 of the conversation with the poet, writer, and translator about Olga Tokarczuk's novel The Books of Jacob. In 2020 the Tempora Publishing House issued Ostap Slyvynsky's Ukrainian translation of this novel. Iryna Slavinska:...

We are talking about The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The plot of The Books of Jacob unfolds across several borders, and quite a few events take...

On this Encounters program, we talk about Taras Shevchenko and the interpretations, translations, and elucidations of his Yiddish translators. Our guest on the show is Oksana Pashko, a literary specialist, Candidate of Philological Studies, lecturer...

Our guest in the studio is Marianna Kiyanovska, a Ukrainian poet, translator, and member of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine and the Ukrainian branch of PEN. In 2020 she was awarded the Shevchenko Prize...