Rory Finnin

Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. He launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in 2008. Finnin’s primary research interest is the interplay of culture and identity in Ukraine. He also focuses on the history of colonialism in Crimea and studies Crimean Tatar literature and culture. His new book, Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022), has won eight international book awards

I was born in 1968. Teaching French and comparative literature at Geneva University. I am writing poetry, and I am the redactor in chief of french review, Po&sie, born 40 years ago.

Hi! I am Lisa Weeda, a Dutch-Ukrainian writer, literary program maker, screenwriter, audio fan and virtual reality director. Text is always the base of my work, but form is free. Ukraine, my grandmother’s motherland, is often at the center of my work.
My debut novel ALEKSANDRA received numerous accolades in The Netherlands and was sold to eight countries. My second novel DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION came out this February, and I am currently working on an immersive installation with the same name.

Miroslav Tomek was born in 1984 in Prague. He studied History and Ukrainian Studies at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague. He translates mostly from Ukrainian and Belarusian. His translations include Valerian Pidmohylny’s novel The City (2019) and Zhadan’s novels The Orphanage (2023) and Depeche Mode (2023). As a reviewer and columnist, he mainly follows Ukrainian literary and, more broadly, cultural developments. He currently works at Czech Radio as a research specialist.

He has been working as a cultural journalist for 30 years. As a writer he is the author of the novels: Rectos Torcidos, Días de Sal, La bibliotecaria de Auchwitz — The Librarian of Auschwitz (translated into 31 languages), A cielo Abierto — The Prince of the Skies (winner of the Biblioteca Breve Award 2017), La playa infinita. In 2024 he has published the novel Música en la oscuridad.