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# Ukrainian Book Challenge

Just one book, once a year

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- [The Ukrainian Book Challenge: One Book, One Act of Solidarity](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/ukrainian-book-challenge) - The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), together with the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) and with support from the HUCUS Foundation, announces a new long-term campaign: the Ukrainian Book Challenge. The campaign, designed to spread over social media much like other such viral initiatives, makes a simple but impactful ask: to buy at

## Pages

- [Main page](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/) - Ukrainian Book Challenge
- [Donation Options](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/donation-options) - Donations via Harvard University for HURI Publications If you want to support publishing work Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), please click on the Donate to HURI button. You will be redirected to Harvard University’s official donation portal. Important: Please make sure to enter “HURI Publications” as the payment designation (in the Purpose or Memo field,
- [About](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/about) - The Ukrainian Book Challenge is a powerful annual call to action launched by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) together with the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) and with support from the HUCUS Foundation. Its mission is to amplify Ukrainian voices in English and ensure that translators, editors, and publishers can continue bringing
- [Privacy Policy](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/privacy-policy) - 1. Introduction HURI Books (“we,” “our,” “us”), with the support of HUCUS Foundation, initiated the Ukrainian Book Challenge to promote Ukrainian literature and foster community engagement. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect information from individuals and organizations who interact with our website, including potential partners. 2. Information We Collect We may
- [Partners](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/partners) - Working together to amplify Ukrainian literary voices
- [News & Updates](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/news) - Stay informed about the latest challenge highlights, author events, and community milestones
- [Books](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/books) - Explore our curated collection of Ukrainian literature from HURI and partner publishers

## Books

- [Furious Harvests](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/furious-harvests) - Furious Harvests transports readers to Alex Averbuch’s homeland of eastern Ukraine. Amid the bloody destruction brought by Russia’s war of aggression, the poet toils in fields of memory, reaping lyrics from family archives and mementos to amass testaments to the complex and painful histories of this place and its peoples. A family tree, letters to home,
- [Jews in Old Rus′](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/jews-in-old-rus′) - Did Jews actually live in Old Rus′? Or is it a historical myth? For a long time, researchers and historians have wrestled with two extreme theories while working with evidence: from completely denying the presence of Jewish communities in early Eastern Europe, to exaggerating their size and role in the ensuing formation of Eastern European
- [Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle"](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/omeljan-pritsak-and-the-intellectual-origins-of-the-ukrainian-harvard-miracle) - Born during the Ukrainian-Polish War in Galicia (western Ukraine), Omeljan Pritsak grew up in a world of collapsing empires and changing governments. His academic journey started at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, which Pritsak entered in 1936. There, he studied Semitic, Iranian, and Altaic languages and developed an interest in the history of the
- [Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/silence-dressed-in-cyrillic-letters) - This collection of poems transforms the personal author's loss into Ukraine’s collective experience. Since the outbreak of war in Donetsk in 2014, Iya Kiva has become an essential voice for the country’s internally displaced people, creating new metaphors for uncertainty and survival. Originally writing in Russian, Kiva now writes in Ukrainian, reflecting her linguistic shift
- [David and Goliath](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/david-and-goliath) - The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world’s largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that— while still the largest on the European continent—is almost thirty times smaller and has only over a quarter of Russia’s population. Yet Ukraine's stubborn resistance
- [Carbide](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/carbide) - CARBIDE explores the underbelly of the Ukrainian smuggling industry. The protagonist, Tys, a merciless yet loving parody of Ukrainian nationalism, concocts a hairbrained scheme to dig a tunnel from the imaginary western Ukrainian city of Vedmediv to Hungary and force the European Union to grant Ukraine admission by smuggling its entire population into a member-country.
- [We Were Here](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/we-were-here) - Poetry from the frontline of the russo-Ukrainian war. Artur asks why we need poetry and answers with poems and a further explanation. 'For a long time I had no answer to this question. I told myself that I didn’t know. After the full-scale invasion began, I stopped writing. Since the age of seventeen, I had
- [Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/transit-culture-and-postcolonial-trauma) - This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises; and post-memory as a means of overcoming historical
- [Diary of a Hunger Striker](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/diary-of-a-hunger-striker) - A remarkable two-book volume: Diary of A Hunger Striker, the first-hand account of celebrated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, jailed unfairly as a political prisoner, during his 145-day-long hunger strike in a Russian prison; and Four and a Half Steps, his newest collection of short stories. Sentsov’s prison diary begins three days into his indefinite hunger
- [Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/cosmopolitan-spaces-in-odesa-a-case-study-of-an-urban-context) - This is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education
- [Lost in Living](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/lost-in-living) - Lost in Living presents Halyna Kruk’s unpublished work from the immediate “pre-invasion” years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalized. In these “dear poems that don’t pain [her] like those about the war do,” Kruk uses imagery and tone to underscore poetic agency, at times juxtaposing figurative
- [Selected Poems](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/selected-poems) - Clytemnestra plotting her husband's murder, Ophelia criticizing her creator, and a report from Chernobyl all offer the poet occasions for reflections marked by a sophisticated wit and a philosophical probing reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska or Adam Zagajewski. By turns urgent and ironic, Zabuzhko's poetry stands alongside the finest and most important work to emerge from
- [A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/a-crash-course-in-molotov-cocktails) - Translated with the utmost of care by Amelia Glaser and Yulia Ilchuk, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails is a guidebook to the emotional combat in Ukraine. These stunning poems of witness by one of Ukraine's most revered poets are by turns breathless, philosophical, and visionary. In a dark recapitulation of evolution itself, Kruk writes:
- [Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened: A Bouquet for Victoria Amelina](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/nothing-bad-has-ever-happened-a-bouquet-for-victoria-amelina) - At thirty-seven, Victoria Amelina was one of Ukraine's most promising young writers, on the verge of a major international career, when Russia's full-scale invasion against Ukraine broke out. On hearing the news, Victoria, who was traveling in Egypt with her ten-year-old son, headed home. After dropping him off with her mother in Krakow, she hurried
- [Crimean Fig /Qırım İnciri: Contemporary Crimean Tatar Poetry and Fiction](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/crimean-fig-qirim-inciri-contemporary-crimean-tatar-poetry-and-fiction) - Crimean Fig / Qirim Inciri: Contemporary Crimean Tatar Poetry and Fiction features stories and poems, written by contemporary Crimea Tatar writers and poets, which are shadowed by history. Inevitably, they reflect the traumas endured by Crimean Tatars over the last three and a half centuries. They further chronicle the complex process of a population's efforts
- [The God of Freedom](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-god-of-freedom) - In Yuliya Musakovska's newest poetry collection, The God of Freedom, she reveals, facet by facet, the landscape of a turbulent, contemporary Ukraine. Equal parts intimate and expansive, the poems follow the societal struggles of women and their families, the trauma of returning soldiers, and the peoples' future under the shadow of war and its tumultuous
- [On the Road to Lviv](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/on-the-road-to-lviv) - Prismatic and polysemous, On the Road to Lviv invites us on an odyssey across Ukraine in the hour of war. "This chronicle/ Took shape the day the war began, which was/ My 65th birthday," writes legendary traveler, war correspondent, memoirist and poet Christopher Merrill. At once deeply personal yet rooted in history so recent you
- [Don't Close Your Eyes](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/dont-close-your-eyes) - Don't Close Your Eyes, a collection of Hanna Melnyczuk's drawings created during Russia's war on Ukraine, attempt to process what is happening to the country her parents left in 1945. Influenced by her work on children's books, these drawings convey events through colored pencil and watercolor. Melnyczuk draws as a way to understand the unfathomable
- [In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/in-the-hour-of-war-poetry-from-ukraine) - Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and
- [Today is a Different War](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/today-is-a-different-war) - Lyudmyla Khersonska’s striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine shows us images that will sear themselves in your memory. No other volume of poems captures the duality of fear and bravery, anger and love, despair and hope, as well as the numbness and deep feeling of what it means to be Ukrainian in these
- [Persephone Blues](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/persephone-blues) - Persephone Blues offers a selection of poems by one of the leading Ukrainian writers of her generation, Oksana Lutsyshyna. In the poems collected here "experience is a means of entombment." Gender is no longer a measure of strength; neither is youth. Sometimes the dead can see each other again; love goes through its motions, while
- [Sergeant Dark](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/sergeant-dark) - Henry Hughes’ fifth book of poems, Sergeant Dark, carries us to the edge of the war in Ukraine and deep into Antarctica. These poems take us out shark fishing and bird watching, and into the bar and bedroom. They offer honest, humorous and hard looks at everyday life—love, marriage, parenting, money, religion, sports and politics—celebrating
- [Don't Touch the Bones](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/dont-touch-the-bones) - Don’t Touch the Bones, this remarkable second collection by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, shows its author hard at work to transform the experience of cultural losses—of lands, language, and legacy—into a poetry of remembrance, homage, and power. She inherited generations of memories and found an uncommon resolve to record the emotional life of her people, Jews
- [The Age of Secrets](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-age-of-secrets)
- [Three Wooden Trunks](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/three-wooden-trunks) - Three Wooden Trunks is a collection of poems about memory and the poet’s Ukrainian roots, and of the poet’s family’s pursuit of a sweeter, easier life in America.
- [Carbon: Song of Crafts](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/carbon-song-of-crafts) - Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine—Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe‘s east: the reader is sent onto a double Odyssey of two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith Alexander and the elusive linguist Lisa, whose paths are destined to cross on the cusp of the war in the
- [A Field of Foundlings](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/a-field-of-foundlings) - In A Field of Foundlings, Starovoyt investigates Ukraine’s suppressed generational memory of the 20th century and the new context of its retelling in Eastern Europe. Drawing on the paradoxes of mythology, technology, and tradition, Starovoyt brings the traces of undesirable histories and the minefields of memory into unexpected constellations that interrogate assertions of knowledge and
- [Songs for a Dead Rooster](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/songs-for-a-dead-rooster) - Songs for a Dead Rooster presents a selection of poems by Yuri Andrukhovych, one of contemporary Ukraine’s leading writers. While Andrukhovych is well known internationally as a novelist and essayist, his recognition in Ukraine was first as a poet, and poetry remains a key part of his creative output. This volume gathers selections from two
- [Smokes](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/smokes) - Yuri Izdryk’s Smokes explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and the divine. The poems teem with energy; Izdryk’s indefatigable play with language encompasses incessant punning rhymes, Joycean multilingual puns, ludic shifts of tone and register, and scintillating intertextual games. In creating a sophisticated semantic soundscape where sound and rhythm defiantly
- [Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/eccentric-days-of-hope-and-sorrow) - Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets poetry written over the last four decades. Having established an English language following largely on the merits of a single poem, Bilotserkivets’s larger body of work continues to be relatively unknown. Natalka Bilotserkivets was an active participant in Ukraine’s Renaissance of the
- [Pray to the Empty Wells](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/pray-to-the-empty-wells) - Deeply rooted in Ukraine’s folk culture, Shuvalova’s poetry re-mixes traditional spirituality with pulsating eroticism and an acute awareness of the natural environment. Pray to the Empty Wells offers a long poetic meditation on memory and life’s natural cycles. Each word, like a life force, forms a connective substance that weaves between lines and verses. Though
- [A New Orthography](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/a-new-orthography) - In A New Orthography, the Serhiy Zhadan focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of the country’s residents as they respond to crisis. Zhadan revives and revises the role of the nineteenth-century Romantic bard, one who portrays his community with clarity, preserving its most precious aspects and darkest nuances. The poems
- [Mountain and Flower](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/mountain-and-flower) - Mountain and Flower is Mykola Vorobiov’s second book in English translation, presenting a selection of poems spanning more than fifty years of his poetic craft. The book begins with early poems from his first collection, Remind Me for the Road, to his most recent works. One of the founding members of the nonconformist literary group
- [Apricots of Donbas](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/apricots-of-donbas) - Born and raised in a small coal-mining town in Ukraine’s industrial east, Lyuba Yakimchuk lost her family home in 2014, when the region was occupied by Russian-backed militants, and her parents and sister were forced to flee as refugees. Reflecting the complex emotional experiences of a civilian witnessing a gradual disintegration of her familiar surroundings,
- [The Country Where Everyone's Name is Fear](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-country-where-everyones-name-is-fear) - Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, nonstop propaganda flows from TV and neighbors begin to hate their neighbors. It is Ukraine, at the start of the 21st century, but it is also eerily recognizable anywhere. These brief lyric poems speak about
- [Dream Bridge](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/dream-bridge) - In Dream Bridge: Selected Poems, Oleh Lysheha creates worlds in which horses drawn on Paleolithic caves speak their truths and the glance of a swan can transform a lost soul. Each poem leads us down an invisible path that keeps shifting, transforming us and our ideas of poetry, together with the story. In the 1970s
- [Nobody Knows Us Here and We Don't Know Anyone](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/nobody-knows-us-here-and-we-dont-know-anyone) - Kateryna Kalytko's sophisticated poetry volume, Nobody Knows Us Here, and We Don’t Know Anyone, deals with separations and changes, hinting at the ongoing war in Ukraine. One can intuit that the characters, succinctly depicted, are Crimean Tatars, Jews, or the displaced citizens of Ukraine, refugees from the occupied territories. However, these departures and partings, acute
- [A Violin from the Other Riverside](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/a-violin-from-the-other-riverside) - A Violin from the Other Riverside is a bilingual collection by an outstanding Ukrainian poet of the post-World War II generation, Dmytro Kremin. It is a philosophical bow strung with a Ukrainian timeline arrow: its nock in the prehistoric Pontic steppe; its fletching made of Scythia, Ancient Greece, and Rome; its shaft of the Cossack
- [Details of an Hourglass](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/details-of-an-hourglass) - Details of an Hourglass chronicles the anti-world of Soviet prison camps in miniature-poem reflections. Its author, Mykola Horbal, spent sixteen years in the notorious Gulag system where he suffered under grueling labor, deprivation, and humiliation. Stripping down the poetic word to its bare form, Horbal’s verses are brief, terse, and densely layered with metaphor. Alongside
- [Winter King](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/winter-king) - Winter King by Ostap Slyvynsky presents a selection from a decade and a half worth of work by one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary voices in poetry. Slyvynsky is the poet of everyday things. He writes of children’s games, old trees, and family stories. Yet, what emerges from under his pen is the portrait of
- [A Ukrainian Dictionary of War](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/a-ukrainian-dictionary-of-war) - What happens to language during war? Does it become superfluous to actions? Is it twisted? Broken? Lost? In wartime, even the meaning of simple words can change, expand, contract, acquire new resonances and sounds. A Ukrainian Dictionary of War began with the fragments of experiences spoken in the new language of life under war and
- [Algometry](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/algometry) - A term of physiology and neurology, algometry is the science of measuring pain. However, it is not physical pain that Iryna Vikyrchak examines in Algometry, but her experiences growing up in Western Ukraine in the ’90s, emphasizing emotional sensitivity and inner strength, which give way to a philosophical and lyrical reflection on pain, suffering, and
- [Long Eyes](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/long-eyes) - Khrystia Vengryniuk's Long Eyes is a collection of poems that guides us through the labyrinths of loneliness, where pain drifts like the wind and voices fade yet still echo on the edges of silence. It is both a confession that pours forth like rain from the heavens and a lingering hallucination that refuses to release
- [The Frontline](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-frontline) - In his selection of essays, Serhii Plokhy provides his analysis of the key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s complex relations with Russia and the West, tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine’s role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Using an elegant
- [The City](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-city) - The realism and mastery of the word in this novel immerses the reader in the story of Stepan Radchenko, a young man from the provinces, who moves to Kyiv and achieves literary success through romantic encounters with women. Pidmogylnyi's prose reveals the main protagonist's psyche through action rather than introspection, and combines French literary influence with Freudian
- [In Isolation](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/in-isolation) - In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiïvka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate environment and questions himself in an attempt to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the working-class
- [Cassandra](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/cassandra) - In this title, Lesia Ukrainka, using the prism of classical mythology and intertextual practice, draws attention to the problems of colonialism and cultural enslavement, patriarchy and the enslavement of women, as well as the dilemma of the visionary writer who sees the truth along with the consequences, but, like the archetypal Cassandra, is powerless to
- [Best Literary Translations 2025](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/best-literary-translations-2025) - Best Literary Translations redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors.
- [Voroshilovgrad](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/voroshilovgrad) - Easy Rider meets Pedro Páramo in this darkly funny, fast-paced road novel that barrels through eastern Ukraine's ravaged industrial landscape.
- [Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/love-in-defiance-of-pain-ukrainian-stories) - A story collection featuring acclaimed, award-winning contemporary voices from Ukraine.
- [Life Went on Anyway: Stories](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/life-went-on-anyway-stories) - This timely collection of stories is by a Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director, whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause célèbre.
- [Ivan and Phoebe](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/ivan-and-phoebe) - Ivan and Phoebe chronicles the lives of several young people involved in the Ukrainian student protests of the 1990s—otherwise known as the Revolution on Granite or the First Maidan and investigates the difficulties and absurdities of a society swiftly shifting from subjugation to revolution to post-Soviet rule.
- [Diary of an Invasion](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/diary-of-an-invasion) - One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.
- [Grey Bees](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/grey-bees) - With his signature humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict along the Russian border.
- [Mondegreen](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-orphanage) - This novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Donbas, who has moved to Kyiv at the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian war. His physical displacement–​​and subsequent conscious adoption of the Ukrainian language–puts him in a state of disorientation, during which he is forced to question his beliefs. This novel illustrates how people undergo
- [Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/ukraines-nuclear-disarmament) - In 1994, Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty in exchange for security "assurances" from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Two decades later, in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and launched a war in eastern Ukraine, breaking those very promises. Kostenko provides an insider's view of the
- [Survival as Victory](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/survival-as-victory) - Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book tells the stories of Ukrainian women who were sentenced to the GULAG in the 1940s and 1950s. With this book, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by
- [Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/ukrainian-nationalism-in-the-age-of-extremes) - This timely book is the first English-language biography of the doctrine’s founder, Dmytro Dontsov (1883–1973), the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Organizing his research of the period around Dontsov’s life, Erlacher has written a global intellectual history of Ukrainian integral nationalism from late imperial Russia to postwar North America, with relevance for
- [A Harvest Truce](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/a-harvest-truce) - Brothers Anton and Tolik return to bury their mother. But Russia's war and the activities of the separatists turn this mundane task into a logistical and ideological challenge. The brothers and other village residents have to overcome isolation and a lack of light and water. The only fragile hope for a ceasefire is the so-called
- [The Moscow Factor](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-moscow-factor) - This study situates the stance of the United States toward Ukraine in the broader context of international relations. It fills an important lacuna in existing scholarship and policy discourse by focusing on the complex trilateral—rather than simply bilateral—dynamics among the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia, in 1991–2016. This book brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials
- [Ukraine, War, Love](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/ukraine-war-love) - Written in diary form, Olena Stiazhkina’s book tells the story of events in and around Donetsk during the Russian invasion and occupation of 2014. In this personal account, she documents the first bloody chapter of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This diary records events from March 2, 2014, when the first wave of pro-Russian protests swept
- [Babyn Yar](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/babyn-yar) - This book symbolizes the responses of Ukrainian Jewish and non-Jewish poets from the Soviet and post-Soviet periods to the tragic events of the Jewish massacres at Babyn Yar in September 1941. It is first presented here in the original and in English translation by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin. Together, the poems in Babyn Yar:
- [Earth Gods](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/earth-gods) - This powerful volume brings together three of his early masterpieces: Anna’s Other Days, FM Galicia, and The UnSimple. Anna’s Other Days is a quartet of experimental stories that blur the lines between memory and narrative, action and contemplation. Through fragmentary prose and philosophical depth, Prochasko explores in his stories how participation in a narrative, or
- [Stalin's Liquidation Game](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/stalins-liquidation-game) - This book brings Shums'kyi’s legacy out of the shadows into the light of today’s struggle and provides a new perspective on the causes of Soviet repression and Russian pathologies regarding Ukrainian independence, helping us to understand Russia’s current war against Ukraine. It reveals a tragic, complex figure who fought for Ukraine from within the Soviet
- [“In the Tight Triangle of the Night”](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/in-the-tight-triangle-of-the-night) - This book examines the early poetry (1956–1971) of the Ukrainian/American writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, one of the founders of the New York Group of Ukrainian poets and a unique figure among Ukrainian writers with regard to his experiments with forms. Demonstrating the radical changes that occurred in his poetic style between the 1950s and 1970s, Maria
- [The Voices of Babyn Yar](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/voices-babyn-yar) - In this heartfelt collection of poems, Marianna Kiyanovska honors Holocaust victims by telling their stories of horror, death, and survival in their own imagined voices. The poems share the experiences of ordinary people facing the unbearable events that led to the Babyn Yar massacre in Kyiv, using a first-person, captivating, and sometimes alienating approach. Conceived
- [Love Life](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/love-life) - This novel is about being human in the modern world and tells the story of Yora, an immigrant from Ukraine to the United States. A gentle soul with a keen sense of human relationships' nuances, Yora falls in love with Sebastian, a charming acquaintance who hints at a deep connection between them. But their relationship
- [Signals of Being](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/signals-of-being) - Set during the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion, Rafeyenko’s play explores survival, identity, and connection in a community trapped between Bucha and Borodianka. With echoes of Ukrainian and global literary voices, Signals of Being is a dramatic meditation on war and belonging.
- [The Torture Camp on Paradise Street](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-torture-camp-on-paradise-street) - Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev was imprisoned from 2015 to 2017 in a concentration camp set up by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk. He spent most of that time in Izolyatsia—a defunct insulation materials factory that the Russians converted into a torture camp. In The Torture Camp on Paradise
- [Cecil the Lion Had to Die](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/cecil-the-lion-had-to-die) - This title tells the story of four families whose world undergoes radical changes when the Soviet Union suddenly collapses, an independent Ukraine emerges, and neo-imperial Russia starts a war by occupying Ukrainian Crimea and part of Donbas. This novel is a must-read for those who seek to deepen their understanding of Ukrainians from the Donbas
- [[dasein: defence of presence]](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/dasein-defence-of-presence) - Poetry from the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian war. What does it mean to defend human presence against a genocidal force that intends to destroy it? Yaryna Chornohuz’s poems are meditations from the front line of this defence. They are acts of testimony to pain and loss in war yet also to the hope that underlies
- [Both Sides Face East. Volume 1: Durable Words](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/both-sides-face-east-volume-1-durable-words) - A Ukrainian journalist ends each day “scorched by another person’s grief.” A schoolgirl in Croatia cherishes her Barbie and learns to dread air raid sirens more than her geometry homework. A poet imagines the spiritual life of a fish who escapes the hook. An exiled artist recreates her homeland in the shape of a bird.
- [Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/cossacks-in-jamaica-ukraine-at-the-antipodes-essays-in-honor-of-marko-pavlyshyn) - This bilingual collection of essays celebrates Marko Pavlyshyn’s outstanding contribution to the study of modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture. With its many methodological approaches and the variety of periods, authors and texts that it analyzes, the book reflects and builds on Pavlyshyn’s willingness to modernize our understanding of Ukrainian literature as an instrument
- [Courage and Fear](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/courage-and-fear) - This is a study of a multicultural city in times when all norms collapse. Ola Hnatiuk presents a meticulously documented portrait of Lviv’s ethnically diverse intelligentsia during World War Two. As the Soviet, Nazi, and once again Soviet occupations tear the city’s social fabric apart, groups of Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish doctors, academics and artists
- [Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/dnipro-an-entangled-history-of-a-european-city) - This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’
- [The Dreamtime: A Novel](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-dreamtime-a-novel) - Alluding to the Indigenous Australian concept of dreamtime, the novel offers a unique point of view on the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, through four intertwining narratives: a guilt-ridden doctor trying to exorcise his demons by exposing himself to war; a young woman tending to her ailing father as the bombs
- [From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/from-the-bible-to-shakespeare-pantelejmon-kulis-1819-97-and-the-formation-of-literary-ukrainian) - This is the first English-language study of the translations of the Bible and Shakespeare into vernacular Ukrainian by Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–1897), a true Ukrainian maverick in the national revival of his country and a precursor of the modern understanding of Ukrainian literature. In this study, Kuliš’s translations are discussed in tandem with the time and
- [Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/literature-exile-alterity-the-new-york-group-of-ukrainian-poets) - This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and their adopted homelands, underscoring the group’s role
- [Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/memoirs-of-a-jewish-district-attorney-from-soviet-ukraine) - What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holocaust memories play in solving and investigating the criminal cases? How does a detective’s mind work? The answers to these and many other fascinating questions are found in this book. Mikhail
- [New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/new-york-elegies-ukrainian-poems-on-the-city) - New York Elegies attempts to demonstrate how descriptions and evocations of New York City are connected to various stylistic modes and topical questions urgent to Ukrainian poetry throughout its development. The collection thus gives readers the opportunity to view New York through various poetic and stylistic lenses. Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth
- [Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/odessa-recollected-the-port-and-the-people) - The present Ukrainian city of Odessa, formerly an economic asset for the Russian Empire and a resort town for the Soviet Union, always a non-conformist city at once rambunctious and European in style, has become a contested area. Imperial Russian tsars and Soviet leaders maintained an ambivalent attitude towards the maverick city, appreciating the fame
- [Parallel Realities in Russian and Ukrainian Contemporary Cinema](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/parallel-realities-in-russian-and-ukrainian-contemporary-cinema) - This book examines Russian and Ukrainian feature films to trace the roots and consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It argues that the cultural war stems from a colonial past, where Russia viewed Ukraine as an inferior "little brother." By examining cinematic representations of the countries’ shared history, this book reveals how Russia has
- [The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-post-chornobyl-library-ukrainian-postmodernism-of-the-1990s) - Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library in Tamara Hundorova’s book becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma of the
- [“Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/quiet-spiders-of-the-hidden-soul-mykola-nik-bazhans-early-experimental-poetry) - This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. As he moved from futurism to neoclassicism, symbolism to socialist realism, Bazhan consistently displayed a creative approach to theme, versification, and vocabulary. Many poems from his three remarkable early collections
- [The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea (Vol I)](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-shochet-a-memoir-of-jewish-life-in-ukraine-and-crimea-vol-i) - Set in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy and became a shochet (kosher slaughter) as a young man, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he
- [The Shochet (Volume II): A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-shochet-volume-ii-a-memoir-of-jewish-life-in-ukraine-and-crimea) - Set in Ukraine, Crimea, and Israel, this unique two-volume autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in Tsarist Russia and Israel during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy and became a shochet (kosher slaughterer) as a young man, is a master
- [The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-tears-and-smiles-of-things-stories-sketches-meditations) - Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian “voice” of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: the big things in our lives (like happiness, loneliness, and aging); the small things we do or see daily, rarely paying attention
- [Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/ukrainian-sunrise-stories-of-the-donetsk-and-luhansk-regions-from-the-early-2000s) - This book offers a nuanced exploration of Donetsk and Luhansk regions prior to the 2014 Russian invasion. While the region, collectively known as Donbas, frequently appears in news headlines, it remains under-researched by scholars, and myths about it abound. Combining rigorous research and captivating narration, Kateryna Zarembo debunks common myths about the region, such as
- [War from the Rear: A Ukrainian aid volunteer's story](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/war-from-the-rear-a-ukrainian-aid-volunteers-story) - A gripping, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply human portrait of life in Ukraine reshaped by war. In this powerful collection of essays, writer Andriy Lyubka—thrust into the role of an unlikely volunteer—offers a firsthand account of delivering aid to the front lines. With raw honesty and surprising wit, Lyubka captures both the absurdity and the heartbreak
- [The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/the-white-chalk-of-days-the-contemporary-ukrainian-literature-series-anthology) - The publication of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series. Co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Series has recurrently organized readings in
- [Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/women-and-war-letters-from-ukraine-to-the-free-world) - How would you communicate the realities of living in a warzone to someone who has never had this experience? Thirty Ukrainian women, ages 10 to 72, answered this question in letters that emanate power, depth, pain, strength, and resilience. These fragments of life reveal the horrors of conflict but also the humanity of survivors.
- [Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/words-for-war-new-poems-from-ukraine) - The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice,
- [Ivan Franko and His Community](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/book/ivan-franko-and-his-community) - In this Ukrainian bestseller, now available in English for the first time, Yaroslav Hrytsak examines the first three decades (1856–86) in the life of Ivan Franko, a prominent writer, scholar, journalist, and political activist who became an indisputable leader in the forging of modern Ukrainian national identity. Hrytsak does so against the background of small

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- [Arrowsmith Press](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/partner/arrowsmith-press) - For too long, literary Ukraine has remained a blank slate for the West, neglected by publishers, anthologists, and translators. Thanks to the arrival on the scene of presses such as Lost Horse, HURI, the Poets of Queens, and Arrowsmith, that is no longer the case. Concentrating on publishing work by contemporary Ukrainian poets, Arrowsmith welcomes
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- [](http://ukrainianbookchallenge.org/social_post/717) - Please join me in the #UkrainianBookChallege launched by HURI Books, UNWLA - Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Inc., and the Hocus Foundation 📚💙💛 I’m nominating 5 people to join me:Marianna Tretiak, Liliia DeCos, Marichka Udud, Solomiika Kobuta, Victoria Kondratova It’s easy:• Buy a Ukrainian book or a book about Ukraine in English• Make a post• Use
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