Road to Lviv: European writers at Ukraine's leading bookfair
EUNIC in Ukraine promoted European values and literature at the Lviv Book Forum (September 16-19) and the International Literary Festival (15-19 September). The western city of Lviv has been a major cultural center for centuries and the Forum is the biggest book related event in Ukraine, reaching in 2010 its 17th edition.
Writers from Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Ukraine gave readings and exchanged with the audience. Austrian novelist Elias Schneitter met his readership. Popular Scottish poet and playwright Janet Paisley, already translated into 11 languages, engaged into a debate with Ukrainian poet Lyudmila Taran at the Kurbas Theatre.
Polish writers Jacek Dehnel, Leszek Engelking, Marek Krajewski, Joanna Pawluskiewicz and Krzysztof Varga attended the 5th International Festival of Literature.
Romanian-born Swiss novelist of German language Catalin Dorian Florescu encountered the students of the Ivan Franko National University Lviv and gave a reading. The Goethe-Institut also hosted a reading and a debate with Hungarian-born German writer Terezia Mora and her Ukrainian translator Cristina Nazarkevitch.
