Lviv BookForum will be held in a changed format this year

This year, book fairs will be held not in one pavilion, but in several locations.

Forum of publishers

This year, more than 150 book and literary events have been prepared for the Publishers’ Forum. However, they will take place not only in the Powder Tower. 8 new locations have been prepared for guests, where you can both listen to discussions and buy books.

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About this UP. Culture the press service of the festival reported.

On Wednesday, October 2, the 31st Lviv BookForum will be opened by a public conversation with a literary critic and writer Myroslav Shkandriy. The event will be held in the Powder Tower and during it they will talk about the post-colonial experience of Ukrainians.

In particular, among other events: the presentation of a new novel Vasyl Shklyar “Zayachy kostel”, a discussion about Russian propaganda with participation diplomat and ex-minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kulebainteractive games for children with participation writer Evgenia Zavaliy, events from the author Donations of Kornii and Halyna Vdovichenkoas well as a discussion of the debut collection of short stories the founder of the satirical publication UaReview Roman Golubovskyi. Among the foreign guests are Salman Rushdie, James Alan Robinson, Sofi Oksanen, Georgy Gospodinov and others.

The full program can be viewed at the link. Admission to all events is free.

In the center of Lviv, the organizers gathered events from 45 partner organizationsof them more than 30 publishing houses.

List of forum locations:

• America House Lviv (2 Akademika Hnatyuk St.)

• Lviv Regional Library for Children, “Leoteka” (1 Vinnychenka St.)

• Lviv Regional Library for Youth named after Roman Ivanychuk (9 Market Square)

• Hotel “George”, fireplace room (1 Mickevycha Square)

• Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (15 Svobody Ave.)

• Bookstore “E” (Svobody Ave., 7)

• Art Center “Dzyga” (35 Virmenska St.)

• Art library (Str. Shota Rustaveli, 8)

Visitors will also be able to purchase novelties from publishers during events at locations:

• Powder tower (4 Pidvalna St.): The BookForum store is waiting for you, a partner location with Stary Lev Publishing Housewhere you can buy books by the authors who will perform in the program at the location.

• Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Svobody Ave., 15): We have prepared joint stand of publishing houseswho participate in the program.

• Bookstore “E” (Svobody Avenue, 7)

• Lviv Regional Library for Youth named after Roman Ivanychuk (Rynok Square, 9): Here Lviv BookForum has prepared location of military literature with participation “Azov”

• Bookstore “Family Leisure Club” (15 Brativ Rohatyntsiv St.)

• Bookstore “Plekai” (23 Hrushevsky St.)

• Old Lion bookstore (17 Halytska St.)

  Why the Publishers’ Forum will be held without the main fair

  Previously, the program director of the Forum of Publishers, Sofia Chelyak, published a post in which she talked about the reasons for the cancellation of the large book fair.

  She noted that the funding of the festival since the beginning of the full-scale invasion took place through grant projects: “For two years we were financed by wonderful partners with whom we were already a team, so to speak, but their priorities changed. And since April, I wrote dozens of requests and applications, which were rejected or accepted for a little while“.

  Funds were provided for individual projects, not for supporting the institution. That is why the event had to be reformatted. Several organizations are still holding back funding.

  “We had to abandon the fair for two reasons: at the place where it was held, there are now some structures filled in concrete, and the other reason is that we did not find enough funds to finance it“, said the program director.