Razom Announces Fall 2024 Book Tours with Ukrainian Writers

Razom for Ukraine is proud to announce that this year we are supporting the book tours of five prominent Ukrainian writers in collaboration with over 15 American universities and institutions, with events scheduled in cities across the United States. This literary tour offers audiences a unique opportunity to engage with Ukrainian voices through readings, discussions, and book signings.

Below, you’ll find the scheduled appearances and biographies of the featured writers and poets.

Featured Writers and Poets:

  • Marianna Kyianovska
  • Ostap Slyvynsky
  • Olena Stiazhkina
  • Andriy Lyubka
  • Yulia Iliyukha

Marianna Kiyanovska

Award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, literary scholar, and public figure, Marianna Kiyanovska has had her works translated into eighteen languages. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including poetry, prose, and literary translations. A winner of the Vilenica International Literary Festival and the CEI Fellowship (2007), she was also honored with the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture in Poland (2013). In 2020, she received the prestigious Taras Shevchenko National Prize in Literature for The Voices of Babyn Yar. Kiyanovska is the Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Prize and was named European Poet of Freedom, both in 2022. The English-language translation of The Voices of Babyn Yar won the 2022 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work from the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the 2021–22 Translation Prize from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS). The book was also shortlisted for the 2023 Best Literary Translation into English Prize from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL).

Photo by Valentyn Kuzan

Marianna Kyianovska’s U.S. Tour Dates:

  • 09/18/2024 – Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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  • 09/20/2024 – Grolier, Cambridge, MA
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  • 09/24/2024 – Yale University, New Haven, CT
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  • 09/26/2024 – Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
  • 09/27/2024 – Ukraine House, Washington, D.C.
  • 10/03/2024 – UT Austin, Austin, TX
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  • 10/07/2024 – UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • 10/09/2024 – UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
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  • 10/14/2024 – University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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  • 10/18/2024 – Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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  • 10/21/2024 – Ukrainian Cultural Festival, Razom, New York, NY
  • 10/22/2024 – New York University, Jordan Center, New York, NY
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  • 10/23/2024 – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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  • 10/23/2024 – Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI
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Ostap Slyvynsky

Ostap Slyvynsky is a celebrated Ukrainian poet, translator, essayist, and scholar. He has authored five books of poetry, including The Winter King (2018), and The Dictionary of War (2023), a documentary book based on testimonies of witnesses of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. His poetry has been published internationally, and The Winter King was recently shortlisted for the American Translation Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. Slyvynsky is also a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Vice President of PEN Ukraine since 2022.

Ostap Slyvynsky’s U.S. Tour Dates:

  • 10/17/2024 – Columbia University, New York, NY
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  • 10/18/2024 – Ukrainian Cultural Festival, New York, NY
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  • 10/21/2024 – Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • 10/23/2024 – Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • 10/24/2024 – Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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  • 10/26/2024 – Ukrainian Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA
  • 10/28/2024 – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 10/30/2024 – University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • 11/01/2024 – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  • 11/04/2024 – University of California, San Diego, CA
  • 11/05/2024 – University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Olena Stiazhkina

Olena Stiazhkina is a historian and fiction writer from Donetsk, Ukraine, who combines her historical expertise with sharp, tender, and furious storytelling. She is the author of 11 books of fiction, including the award-winning Cecil the Lion Had to Die and Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary, which are now available in English. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Award.

Olena Stiazhkina’s U.S. Tour Dates:

  • 10/23/2024 – Miami University, Oxford, OH
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  • 10/24/2024 – Tomorrow Bookstore, Indianapolis, IN
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  • 10/25/2024 – Second Flight Books, West Lafayette, IN
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  • 10/28/2024 – American Literary Translators Association, Milwaukee, WI
    “How War Changes Language Choices” Event
  • 10/31/2024 – Ukrainian Cultural Festival, New York, NY
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Stay tuned for updates on the tour schedules of Andriy Lyubka and Yulia Iliyukha. Join us this fall as we celebrate the vibrant voices of Ukraine’s literary community and their stories of resilience, creativity, and culture.



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