Forum of publishers | Bookforum 2023
From October 4th to 8th, Lviv will host the 30th anniversary Lviv BookForum and book fair.
This year, the 30th Lviv BookForum invites you to join the festival in person in Lviv or online on the website bookforum.ua, with digital partnership from Hay Festival (UK).
Let's talk about the event program at the main location "Porokhova Vezha," which is united this year by the central theme "Census of the Future." Create your own wishlist - where to visit and who to listen to during the most anticipated literary event of the year.
October 5th
- Conversation with Andriy Kurkov and Jonathan Franzen Participants: Andriy Kurkov (online), Jonathan Franzen (online), Charlotte Higgins 11:00 - 12:00 Offline
- War for Beginners: A Conversation with Ozren Kebo and Kateryna Kalitko Participants: Kateryna Kalitko, Ozren Kebo (online) 13:00 - 13:45 Offline
- Remembering Our Path into the Future Participants: Georgi Gospodinov (online), Ostap Slyvynskyi, Uyama Blecker, Catherine Younger 14:30 - 15:30 Offline
- War as the Collapse of Civilization: Will There Be Happiness After War? Participants: Vahtang Kebuladze, Ann Applebaum (online), Tetiana Ogarkova, Slavenka Drakulich (online), Maxim Yakovlev 16:00 - 17:20 Offline
- Developing the Marshall Plan for Ukraine: How Ukraine's Victory Will Benefit Everyone Participants: Sevgil Musayeva, Oleksandra Matviychuk, Kristina Berdinskykh, Timothy Garton Ash, Bernard-Henri Lévy 18:00 - 20:20 Offline
- Award Ceremony of the "Meeting" Prize of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter Participants: Olena Stiahkina, Olha Mukha, Natalia Fedushchak, Oksana Forostina 20:30 - 21:30 Offline
October 6th
- Conversation with Volodymyr Areniev and Jonathan Stroud Participants: Volodymyr Areniev, Jonathan Stroud (online) 11:00 - 12:00 Offline
- Freedom of Thought vs. Indoctrination Participants: Yaroslava Barbieri, Janine di Giovanni, Peter Pomerantsev, Jan Garner (online) 13:00 - 14:00 Offline
- Existential Resilience: How Global Historical Changes Affect Us Participants: Kateryna Kalitko, Iryna Tsilik, David Toscana, Taras Prokhasko, Sasha Dovzhik 14:30 - 15:50 Offline
- Modern Mythologies: Do We Need Heroes in the 21st Century? Participants: Emma Antonyuk, Vahtang Kebuladze, Peter Pomerantsev, Olena Huseinova 16:30 - 17:50 Offline
- How Russia's Attack on Ukraine Changes Our View of Colonialism and Decolonization Participants: Mishra Pankaj (online), Volodymyr Yermolenko, Sevgil Musayeva, Alan Ralsbridger 18:30 - 20:20 Offline
- The Power of the Word Participants: Ben Okri (online), Halyna Kruk, Rachel Clarke, Olesia Khromeychuk 21:00 - 22:30 Offline
October 7th
- How Do We Speak? Language and Its Heroes Participants: Oleksandr Mykhed, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Iryna Slavinska, Olesia Khromeychuk 10:30 - 11:50 Offline
- How the Maidan Changed Us: A Conversation About 10 Years of Struggle Participants: Antin Borkovskyi, Kateryna Kalitko, Oleksandr Mykhed, Vitaliy Portnykov 12:30 - 13:30 Offline
- The Struggle for or with Words? Challenges of Discussing War Participants: Luke Harding, David Rieff, Yaryna Chornohuz, Svitlana Povalyeva, Tetiana Ogarkova 14:00 - 15:20 Offline
- Colonial Discourse in Russian Literature: How We (Do Not) Understand the "Russian Soul" Participants: Eva Thompson (online), Oksana Zabuzhko, Elif Batuman, Paata Shamugia, Charlotte Higgins 16:00 - 17:20 Offline
- Global Consequences of Russia's Ecocide in Ukraine: How Ukraine's Victory Will Contribute to Climate Change Fight Participants: Philip Sands, Tamara Hundorova, Rebecca Solnit (online), Olesia Khromeychuk 18:00 - 18:50 Offline
- Night (Evening) of Poetry and Reading Participants: Pyrig i Batig band, Svitlana Povalyeva, Yaryna Chornohuz, Ostap Slyvynskyi, Halyna Kruk, Hryhorii Semenchuk, Kateryna Mikhalytsyna 18:00 - 22:30 Offline
- Babi Yar. In Memory of the Victims of the Tragedy 19:30 - 20:30 Offline
October 8th
- In a Free and New Family... How We Create Closeness in Times of War Participants: Iryna Tsilik, Yurko Prokhasko, Janine di Giovanni, Olena Huseinova 11:30 - 12:50 Offline
- Women, War, and Justice: In Memory of Victoria Amelina Participants: Tetiana Teren, Larisa Denysenko, Oleksandra Matviychuk, Kristina Lemb 13:30 - 14:30 Offline
- Borders of Humanity Participants: Ed Vulliamy, Kateryna Mikhalytsyna, David Rieff, Pavlo Vyishebaba, Catalina Gomez 15:00 - 16:00 Offline
- Presentation of the book "I Transform... Diary of Occupation. Selected Poems" by Volodymyr
