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09/06/2023

First talk in a series of talks about Ukrainian culture through books. “nomadishe boekenplank“ is a curated bookshelf with a pop-up appearance that shares the inspiration of the world culture from the Ukrainian perspective. Hosted at Happy Bookieman.

The talk is about the fresh Dutch translation of Oksana Zabuzhko, one of the most prominent Ukrainian public intellectuals.

Let’s meet for a 30-40 minutes lecture at Happy Bookieman, Amsterdam, Herengracht 267A.
On June 13th at 20:00.
Free entrance

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Description of the book:

Early on Thursday, February 24, writer Oksana Zabuzhko woke up. In a hotel room in Poland, where she is to present a new book, she is told that Russian missiles hit Kyiv. Immediately she knows she is an involuntary exile and that going home is not an option.

From that moment on, many more phone calls follow - often from family but
even more often from Western journalists. They ask her well-intentioned naively about the Russo-Ukrainian war: Could it have been prevented? Is Putin the lone architect of this madness, and we have failed to recognize him as a new Hi**er, a new Stalin? And what does the war mean for the rest of the world?

In My Longest Book Tour, Zabuzhko passionately answers those questions. She tells her own family story and describes how the war – which started much earlier but was not noticed by the West – destroyed every Ukrainian life. Through this mixture of personal stories and social consideration, she offers an unexpected insight into the events that lie ahead that seem to determine Europe.

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About the author:

Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960 in Ukraine. She made her poetry debut at the age of 12, yet, because her parents had been blacklisted during the Soviet purges of the 1970s, it was not until the perestroika that her first book was published.

She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University, obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts, and has spent some time in the USA lecturing as a Fulbright Fellow and a Writer-in-Residence at Penn State University, Harvard University, and University of Pittsburgh. After the publication of her novel "Field Work in Ukrainian S*x" (1996), which in 2006 was named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living in Kiev as a freelance author. She has authored over 20 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, which have been translated into fifteen languages.

Among her numerous acknowledgments are MacArthur Grant (2002), Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Ukrainian National Award, the Order of Princess Olha (2009), the ANGELUS Central European Literature Award (2013), and many other national and international awards.