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HISTORICAL FACTS: Serhiy zhadan | History Defined

Five fiction books that will help you understand Ukraine

Ukrainian literature offers a rich way into the country’s history, culture and identity.

The Conversation

The bleakest winter: Ukrainians face exhaustion and uncertainty as Trump demands concessions

People torn between craving for peace as conditions worsen and desire to hold strong against Russian military and US

The Guardian - UK

‘The world will remember this war not through reportage but through art’: the creatives on Ukraine’s frontline

Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict

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Missile tubes, an unfunny joke, my wife’s band sweatshirt: in Ukraine, this is how we fund our fight for survival

Every concert and show now features an auction to support the army. Two years into the invasion, they have become ever more inventive, surreal – and personal, says Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best recent books from Ukraine

Recently translated works by Ukrainian poets and novelists contemplate domestic life, language, economics, culture and violence in the country

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt; God Complex by Rachael Allen; How Fire Descends by Serhiy Zhadan; The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae; Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a golden age’: poetry flourishes in Ukraine – but at a terrible price

Conflict has changed Ukrainian poetry, and readings are popular, but several poets have died or disappeared

The Guardian - UK

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Elena Ferrante and Marian Keyes among authors competing in Eurovision book contest

As musicians prepare for the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, entries for its literary counterpart have been announced

The Guardian - UK

Pushkin must fall: monuments to Russia’s national poet under threat in Ukraine

Since last February’s invasion more than 30 statues of the 19th-century poet seen as a symbol for tsarist imperialism have been dismantled

The Guardian - UK

Who is Serhiy Zhadan? Helen Mirren reads his poem Take Only What Is Most Important at Ukraine war vigil

Zhadan has written countless poems and books based on his hometown in Ukraine.

Evening Standard

Helen Mirren tears up reciting war poem by Ukrainian writer at vigil

Oscar-winng actress recites war poem by celebrated Ukrainian author

The Independent UK

For Ukrainians, poetry isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity during war

Poetry is fulfilling a very human need – to make sense of the senseless and tell their stories, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

‘Everything has gone’: liberated Ukrainians on rebuilding Kharkiv

After months of terror and death, residents pick up the pieces of their former life in frontline Saltivka

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