This year the oldest annual book event in Ukraine will be online. Lviv BookForum will take place 6–9 October with all events available free to view at official Hay festivals' site. The biggest book festival in UK is a partner of Bookforum. Mixing acclaimed Ukrainian writers with world-renowned literary figures, the co-curated programme will share essential stories and facilitate a global conversation around the biggest questions of our time. You can watch events online here:
- BookForum's facebook-page;
- BookForum's site (chapter "Program");
- Youtube-channel “Еспресо”;
- Hay Festivals's site (ENG).
Friday, 7th of October
Public talk "Love and lost"
Participants: Henry Marsh, Rachel Clark, moderator - psychotherapist Volodymyr Stanchyshyn
12:00 - 13:30
Women & war
Participants: Larysa Denysenko, Emma Graham Harrison, Lydia Cacho, Diana Berg
14:00 - 15:30
Public talk about women's rights and freedom of speech. Kateryna Kalytko with Elif Shafak
16:00 - 16:50
Art in times of conflict
Participants: Diana Berg, Kateryna Kalytko, Ostap Slyvynskyi, Emma Graham Harrison
17:00 - 18:30
Public talk with Yuval Harari and Neil Gaiman
Event will be chaired by Sevgil Musayeva, editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda.
19:00 - 20:00
Saturday, 8th of October
Morning reading for children with Oleksandr Dermanski
Event will be offline.
It will take place in Lviv.
10:00 - 10:45
The idea of Europe
Participants: Volodymir Yermolenko, Philipe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova, Misha Glenny
11:00 - 12:30
Imperialism and identity
Participants: Olena Styazhkina, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Lydia Cacho, Ihor Pomerantsev, Jon Lee Anderson
13:00 - 14:30
Propaganda
Participants: Bruno Macaes, Philipe Sands, Emma Winberg, Lyubov Tsybulska, Peter Pomerantsev
15:00 - 16:30
Hope, humanity, and war
Participants: Margaret McMillan, Sergii Plokhii, Yaroslav Hrytsak
17:00 - 18:30
War crimes & memory
Participants: Philipe Sands, Natalia Humeniuk, Stanyslav Asieiev, Johnatan Littell, event will be chaired by Ukrainian journalist and radio presenter Andrii Kulykow
18:30 - 20:00
Public talk literary critic and translator Yurii Prokhasko with Margaret Atwood
20:15 - 21:15
Sunday, 9th of October
Morning reading for children with Sashko Dermanski
10:00 - 10:45
Money and culture: how cultural institutions become russia's offshore
Participants: Misha Glenny, Oliver Bullough, Catherine Belton. Event will be chaired by the TV presenter Vadym Karpiak.
11:00 - 12:30
Public talk of Philippe Sands with Ukrainian activist, writer and novelist Viktoria Amelina
13:00 - 14:30
The role of journalists and writers in war
Participants: Michael Katakis, Viktoria Amelina, Jon Lee Anderson. It will be chaired by Tetyana Oharkova, a Ukrainian literary scholar, journalist and essayist.
15:00 - 16:30
New reality – new creativity. Pre-promotion of the anthology "War 2022": diaries, essays, poetry
Participants: Mariana Savka, Tetiana Teren
16:30 - 18:00
Public talk of Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah with Alim Aliev, Ukrainian journalist, activist.
19:00 - 20:00
