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We've just published Chytomo Report 2024. We need your advice! But let's start with our results: 1. 📢 20 international and local media outlets from 11 countries republished, quoted or created their own stories with our help and based on our articles, news and research - in 7 languages!

Today is Lesia Ukrayinka's birthday! Who is she? 🏆 one of the most renowned UA authors 🎓 UA intellectual fluent in dozens of languages 💃 playwright who reimagined global narratives from a female perspective Share her translations available in your language in the thread! ⬇️ #LesiaUkrayinka

24.02.22 - 3 years. It's incredible to read the flash essays by UA intellectuals during the first days of RU's invasion. We believe they are even more relevant internationally now. "Ironically, safety = helplessness = stress. Collective action, though dangerous, = agency = freedom," says Wynnyckyj ↘️

Chytomo team on the first page of @lemonde.fr 🙌

1/ Do you know, that in 1945 post-war West Germany there were displaced-persons camps, or DP camps? Here is a thread explaining why these camps became important centres of Ukrainian culture and publishing. [Full article: chytomo.com/en/german-dp... ]

Open call: The International Book Arsenal Festival announces the call for applications for the international audience of book professionals. Up to eight professionals will be selected to participate in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program. The submission deadline is March 9 inclusive. Find details ↘️

We are ready to announce our winners! The best UA publishing and book promotion initiatives of the year! chytomo.com/en/chytomo-a...

#Kyiv we are all set for the Chytomo Award ceremony! And the subscribers of our monthly newsletter will be among the first to know the winners – the Trendsetter, Book Promoter and Ambassador of the UA lit of the year! chytomo.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Today would have been Borys Humeniuk's 60th birthday. “I do hope that impressions are accumulating in my mind, and if I manage to come out of this war unscathed, I’ll be able to turn these impressions into texts.” Borys Humeniuk, a writer and soldier, went missing in action in 2022. We hold hope

The graphic novel “A Brief History of a Long War” by artist and cultural historian by Mariam Naiem and illustrators Yulia Vus and Ivan Kypibida will be published in FR ahead of UA edition chytomo.com/en/a-brief-h...

This is the 2nd Ukrainian book translation planned by @sevenstories.bsky.social, showcasing how the title and cover of Artem Chekh's novel are adapted for an English-speaking audience: 'Who Are You?' (UA tie-in edition cover) becomes 'Rock, Paper, Grenade' (upcoming ENG edition cover, don't miss!).

If you missed our selection of 7️⃣ the most intriguing movies about writers in 2024, follow the thread 🎥

Januškevič Publishing House, a Belarusian publisher that now operates from Poland, has received permission from the copyright holders of the Harry Potter series by J. K. #Rowling #HarryPotter

After a ten-year break (aside from a special edition), the trilingual Polish-Ukrainian-German literary magazine “Radar” resumes its work 🙌 chytomo.com/en/trilingua...

❗️ "Now the free Slovak literary scene is under threat". The Slovak Literary Center demands reinstatement of its director and calls for global solidarity chytomo.com/en/the-slova... #Slovakia

@sevenstories.bsky.social unveiled the cover of the English edition of Artem Chapeye’s "Ordinary People Don’t Carry Machine Guns!" 🌍📖 #UkrainianLiterature

RIP Martin Pollack... The Austrian intellectual, author of “The Dead Man in the Bunker,” “Contaminated Landscapes,” and “Topography of Remembrance,” has passed away at the age of 80. We hadn't realized it would be our last conversation: bit.ly/3PHi7do #MartinPollack

We are glad to announce the shortlist for the Chytomo Award! Find the best 5 publishers of the 2024 in Book Publishing Market Trendsetter nomination (according to our Jury) - ↘️🧵↘️