Ukraine was represented at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair with a diverse program. Ukrainian authors and poets discussed stories of resistance, loss and the resulting identities. Other topics of discussion included Ukrainian cultural policy during the war, decolonial practices, new funding opportunities for publishers and challenges for translators.

In addition, contemporary texts by Ukrainian authors and poets that have been published in German in the past year were presented at the events. These include works by the writers Olena Stiashkina and Olena Zakharchenko, the literary critic Tetiana Trofymenko and a collection of poems by contemporary Ukrainian poets. Special attention was paid to the memory of the talented young poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who died at the front in early 2024.