Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv

Book authors, designers and illustrators, members of PEN Ukraine. Co-founders of Studio Agrafka. They received a number of awards for their work, among them are Bologna Ragazzi Award (2014, 2015, 2018), NAMI Concours Award (2019, 2021), Bronze medal and Honorary Appreciation of the Stiftung Buchkunst concours “The best book design from all over the world” (2019, 2022), and many others.

Ukrainian human rights activist, director of the Centre for Civil Liberties. Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Writer, journalist, publicist, TV presenter, member of PEN Ukraine

Victoria Amelina is a Ukrainian writer and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome, and a finalist for the European Union Prize for Literature, and the UN Women In Arts Award.
Victoria is a founder of a literature festival, which took place in the Donetsk region. Since 2022, Victoria Amelina has been collaborating with Truth Hounds NGO as a war crimes researcher.

Deputy Director at the Ukrainian Institute. Human rights defender, curator of educational and cultural projects, researcher, journalist. Board member of PEN Ukraine. Co-author of the book “Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable” about the Crimean Tatars leader. The founder of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar literary project “Crimean Fig”, founder of the”Tamırlar” digital museum about Crimean Tatar people genocide in 1944.

Dmytro Kuleba is one of the world’s brightest and youngest senior diplomats.
• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since March 4th, 2020
• Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe (2016-2019)
• The best Ukrainian ambassador of the year 2017 according to the ranking of Ukrainian ambassadors by Institute of World Policy
• Consistent supporter of Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO
• Introduced the concepts of digital diplomacy, strategic communications, cultural and public diplomacy into the Ministry’s work

Writer and publisher, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Old Lion Publishing House. Author of 22 books, mainly poetry for adults and children. Member of the Ukrainian PEN Center.

Journalist, TV presenter, essayist, author of documentaries. Vice President of the Ukrainian PEN. Winner of the High Standards of Journalism Award 2020 and the Georgy Gongadze Award 2021.

Born on November 16, 1977 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kadanov graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts (acting major). He created the band “Che Orchestra”, which has 6 albums. He is also a member of “Mannerheim Line” and “Kerouac’s Mantra” bands. In 2018, his poetry collection “Not Me but Him” was published by the “Vivat” publishing house.

Literary scholar and journalist, in charge of international outreach at Ukraine Crisis Media Centre, co-host (with Volodymyr Yermolenko) of the “Explaining Ukraine” podcast and “Ukraine, face à la guerre” podcast (in French). Member of PEN Ukraine, Fulbright Academic Exchange Program Alumni, Doctor of Literary Studies (Docteur ès lettres, University of Paris-XII Val-de-Marne), Senior lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, co-founder of Kult: Podcast.