Forgottenness
Author: Tanja Maljartschuk
Translator: Zenia Tompkins
Published in Ukraine by Old Lion Publishing in 2016, Tanja Maljartcshuk’s Forgottenness («Забуття») was the winner of the BBC Book of the Year Award. This literary, psychological, and historical novel, written in hauntingly sparse and deliberate prose, chronicles the mental and emotional journey of a young Ukrainian woman searching through her nation’s past for footprints to guide her through the present.
Details of an Hourglass
Author: Mykola Horbal
Translator: Myroslava Stefaniuk
This is a translation of poems and song lyrics written by Mykola Horbal — a poet, musician, and human rights activist, who was repressed by the totalitarian Soviet regime and imprisoned three times in the Gulag for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda."
Decommunization in Ukraine
Author: Oleksandr Hrytsenko
Translator: Ksenia Maryniak
Originally published in 2019 by the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Oleksandr Hrytsenko’s monograph is rich in both primary and secondary sources, providing a broad and comprehensive view of Ukraine’s politics of decommunization in the context of social, political, and cultural transformations in the post-totalitarian and, in some respects, postcolonial country.
Eternal Calendar
Author: Vasyl Makhno
Translator: Ali Kinsella
With narratives that move back and forth from the 17th century to the present, Vasyl Makhno's Eternal Calendar layers local, Ukrainian history onto global histories. Various ethnic groups come together and interact in the delineated space of a small town in what the author calls the "Brownian motion of history."
Voices of Babyn Yar
Author: Marianna Kiyanovska
Translators: Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochynsky
This is a translation of Marianna Kiyanovska’s book of poetry The Voices of Babyn Yar, which was awarded Ukraine’s highest literary state prize in 2020, the Shevchenko National Prize for Literature. Originally published in Kyiv by Dukh i Litera in 2017, the book represents the first stand-alone volume of translations of Kiyanovska’s poetry into the English language.