War 2022: Essays, Poems, Journals
Book Compiler: Volodymyr Rafeienko
Co-authors: Viktoriia Amelina, Sofia Andrukhovych, Yurii Andrukhovych, Kateryna Babkina, Maksym Bespalov, Yuriy Vynnychuk, Pavlo Vyshebaba, Iryna Vikyrchak, Larysa Denysenko, Liubko Deresh, Anatolii Dnistrovyi, Serhii Zhadan, Oles Ilchenko, Yuliya Iliukha, Oleksandr Irvanets, Pavlo Kazarin, Kateryna Kalytko, Iya Kiva, Pavlo Korobchuck, Lina Kostenko, Oleh Kotsaver, Halyna Kruk, Anastasiia Levkova, Andrii Liubka, Vasyl Makhno, Oleksandr Mykhed, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Yuliia Musakovska, Olena Pavlova, Volodymyr Rafeienko, Bohdana Romantsova, Mariiana Savka, Iryna Slavinska, Ostap Slyvynsky, Olena Stepanenko, Kseniia Kharchenko, Iryna Tsylyk, Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, Haska Shyyan, Iryna Shuvalova, Petro Yatsenko
Translation: Paulina Ciucka, Jerzy Czech, Marcin Gaczkowski, Aneta Kamińska, Anna Łazar, Joanna Majewska-Grabowska, Michał Petryk, Maciej Piotrowski, Jacek Podsiadło, Adam Pomorski, Janusz Radwański, Anna Ursułenko, Bohdan Zadura, Marek S. Zadura
Book Cover Design: Anastasiia Stefurak
Publishing House: Stary Lev Publishing House, Nowa Polszcza
Year: 2022
Number of Pages: 440
The end of February 2022 turned the life of Ukraine and its people upside down, but also the European security architecture. Russia's invasion brought death, sorrow and irreparable losses, but it did not break the Ukrainian national spirit. The new reality of war gave birth to a phenomenon of new creativity, including literary creativity.
The publication of Nowa Polska and the Mieroszewski Centre "War 2022: Essays, Poems, Journals" is a response to this phenomenon and a book unique in its kind. The anthology managed to bring together excerpts from the diaries, essays, and poems of more than 40 Ukrainian contemporary writers - Serhiy Zhadan, Yuriy Andrukhovych, Kateryna Babkina, Andriy Lubko, and others. The texts for the anthology were written in trenches, bomb shelters, refugee centers, and border crossings, to the sound of sirens.
- For the most part, the texts in the anthology are not the result of rationally constructed writing, they embody words of shock, piercing pain, and sincere belief in victory. It is an anthology of war, an anthology of resistance, an anthology of victory. Volodymyr Rafiejenko, writer and editor of the volume, says.
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