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URL:https://www.razomforukraine.org/events/frankfurt-book-fair-2026/
SUMMARY:Frankfurt Book Fair 2026
DESCRIPTION:A few pages can hold what a novel takes chapters to earn\, and 
 Ukrainian short fiction is proving it in real time with a distinguished pa
 nel at the Frankfurt Book Fair.\n\nThe Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurt Buch
 messe) is “the world’s capital of ideas since 1949\,” bringing toget
 her nearly 240\,000 visitors including publishers\, authors\, journalists\
 , representatives from creative industries\, and literary fans for five da
 ys of literary exhibitions\, panel discussions\, networking\, and open dia
 logue. For visitors and trade professionals\, the Frankfurt Book Fair is o
 ne of the most important literary events of the year.\n\nRazom Literature 
 is thrilled to announce its participation in the 2026 Frankfurt Book Fair 
 with a panel entitled “Short Form\, Long Reach: Why Small Forms in Liter
 ature Matter\,” taking place Friday\, October 9\, 2026 from 15.00-15.50.
  \n\nHead of Literature at Razom for Ukraine\, Kateryna Kazimirova\, is j
 oined as moderator by internationally renowned guests Roddy Doyle (Ireland
 )\, Uilleam Blacker (U.K.)\, Pavlo “Pashtet” Belianskyi (Ukraine)\, an
 d Yuliia Iliukha (Ukraine) for a discussion about the advantages of short-
 form writing over long-form narratives and the urgent necessity of bringin
 g Ukrainian short fiction into the international spotlight.\n\nRoddy Doyle
  is the author of thirteen novels\, including The Commitments\, Paddy Clar
 k Ha Ha Ha\, for which he won the 1993 Booker Prize\, and Chair of the 202
 5 Booker Prize judges. He is a co-founder of Fighting Words\, which was se
 t up to encourage children and young people throughout Ireland to write cr
 eatively.\n\nUilleam Blacker is Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East 
 European Culture at University College London and one of the leading liter
 ary translators from Ukrainian into English. He is the author of Memory\, 
 the City\, and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe and a 202
 3 Booker Prize judge. He co-presents The Ukraine Shelf podcast.\n\nPavlo "
 Pashtet" Belianskyi is a Ukrainian writer\, screenwriter\, and serving sol
 dier born in the Luhansk region. He is a prolific short prose writer\, and
  his autobiographical novel about the war\, Bytys Ne Mozhna Vidstupyty\, w
 on the 2026 Shevchenko National Prize\, Ukraine's highest literary honor. 
 It was also shortlisted for BBC Ukraine Book of the Year 2024.\n\nYuliia I
 liukha is a Ukrainian poet\, prose writer\, and journalist from the Kharki
 v region. Her short fiction collection My Women was named BBC Ukraine Book
  of the Year 2024 and shortlisted for the European Bank for Reconstruction
  and Development Literature Prize 2025\, and translation rights have been 
 sold in 16 territories.\n\nThe event marks the launch of the Hryhir Short 
 Fiction Award\, named after the Ukrainian short-story master Hryhir Tiutiu
 nnyk and supported by Razom for Ukraine.
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