In the last few weeks of the war, we realized with shame, or at least with embarrassment, that we had barely located Europe's second-largest country on the European map: Ukraine was and remained distant from many of us linguistically, politically and culturally.
That has changed a bit due to the terrible circumstances since February 24, also thanks to the voices of numerous Ukrainian authors who tell us about the reality of this country and the resistance against the overpowering neighbor Russia in the media.
Paul Ingenday
Europe correspondent for the feuilleton in Berlin.
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Katharina Raabe, my interlocutor in this book podcast, has been an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag for many years and is one of the best connoisseurs of Ukrainian literature in Germany.
If some of the following books that are discussed in the podcast seem older to you, all I can say is: Exactly!
Yuri Andrukhovych: "The Last Territory: Essays". Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003.
Yuri Andrukhovych (ed.): "Euromaidan: What is at stake in Ukraine". Suhrkamp, 2014.
Katharina Raabe and Manfred Sapper (editors): "Test case Ukraine: Europe and its values". Suhrkamp, 2015.
Serhij Zhadan: "Why I'm not online. Poems and Prose”. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2016.
Artur Klinau: "Eight Days of Revolution: A Documentary Journal from Minsk". Suhrkamp, 2021.
Olga Shparaga: "The Revolution Has a Female Face: The Case of Belarus". Suhrkamp, 2021.
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