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Time:

18:00

Date:

26.11.2022

Location:

Vienna, Buch Wien, Donau Lounge

Partner:

City of Vienna, Ukraine Office Austria, BMEIA

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Buch Wien: book fair and festival

Stories of Ukrainian Diversity

Book presentation and talk with the Ukrainian writer Olesya Yaremchuk, Buch Wien festival.

Olesya Yaremchuk made her name as a publicist and author early on. She strives to make the diversity and beauty of Ukraine known to a broad public in Europe. The young Ukrainian writer will present her latest book "Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity" and share her impressions of Russia's terrible war against Ukraine, the flight to Vienna and later to Germany.

Olesya Yaremchuk is a member of the Ukrainian PEN Club. In 2021, her book "Unsere Anderen: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity" in German translation. Yaremchuk was editor-in-chief of the publishing house "Choven" working with reportage and documentary literature. Today, she teaches at the UKU University of Lviv. She is a winner of the Samovydets Literary Reportage Award and the LitAccent of the Year Award, both in Ukraine, as well as a finalist for the ADAMI Media Prize and the Lviv – UNESCO City of Literature Award.