An evening with Oksana Zabuzhko and Rosie Goldsmith
Date and time:
Wednesday 20 May, 2020
18:30 - 19:30
Location:
Join us for a riveting evening with Ukraine's celebrated author and public intellectual, Oksana Zabuzhko in conversation with award-winning journalist and director of the European Literature Network, Rosie Goldsmith. Zabuzhko will be speaking about her life in books and her dazzling collection of short stories, Your Ad Could Go Here recently released in English translation, published by Amazon Crossing. This collection of short stories captures the strangeness of being human and shares profound insight into contemporary Ukraine.
In 1996, Zabuzhko rose to international fame with the publication of Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, a novel that topped Ukraine’s bestseller list for more than ten years and which has been named one of the most influential Ukrainian books since independence in 1991.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is widely recognised as Ukraine’s leading literary voice. She has authored more than twenty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, which have been translated into 15 languages and received numerous awards. Since publishing her influential novel Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (1996), she has been working as a freelance author.
Among her awards are a MacArthur Grant (2002), the Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Ukrainian National Award, the Order of Princess Olha (2009), the ANGELUS Central European Literature Award (2013) and many other national and international commendations.
Zabuzhko lives in Kyiv with her partner, artist Rostyslav Luzhetskyy, with whom she operates a small publishing house.
Speaker
Rosie Goldsmith
Rosie Goldsmith is the founder and director of the European Literature Network, an organisation devoted to excellent writing from Europe translated into English. A SONY-award-winning journalist specialising in arts and foreign affairs, Goldsmith spent twenty years at the BBC, travelling the world and presenting flagship programmes such as Crossing Continents, A World In Your Ear, Open Book and Front Row. She now combines journalism with chairing and curating literary events and festivals for leading cultural organisations.
Goldsmith has hosted and helped launch European Literature Night at the British Library in 2009, and she collaborates with the EUPL Literature Prize in Brussels. She has created a host of original events and festivals to raise the profile of writers and artists from across Europe.
