This year, the Writer’s Program returns to Book Arsenal. It will be curated by serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, volunteer, poet, prose writer and translator Andriy Lyubka.
Andriy Lyubka. Picture: Serhii Khandusenko
He is a laureate of the literary awards Debut (2007), Kyiv Laurels (2011), the Kovaliv Fund Award (2017), the Yurii Shevelov Prize for Modern Essays (2017) and the international Joseph Conrad-Kozhenovsky Literary Prize (2024). Andriy Lyubka is the Director of the Institute for Central European Strategy (ICES) and the Vice-President of PEN Ukraine. He translates poetry and prose from Polish, English, Serbian and Croatian. Andriy’s books were published in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Greece, Serbia, Poland, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia and North Macedonia.
As part of the Writer’s Program We Are Not on an Island at Book Arsenal, Andriy invites to a series of meetings with people who shape the literary sphere of Ukraine’s neighboring countries and maintain literary ties across Central and Eastern Europe. In his curatorial essay “We Are Not on an Island” Andriy has written about the importance of neighborliness and getting to know deeper those who are here and nearby.
Book Arsenal is organized in cooperation with Art Arsenal Community NGO. The festival is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.