The organisers of the XIII International Book Arsenal Festival have announced the main theme of this year’s event – ‘Everything between us is translation’. The focus theme was curated by historian Marci Shore and publisher Oksana Forostyna.
The festival’s focus theme explores the boundaries of understanding between cultures and societies, as well as the role of language as a communication tool. In their essays, the curators raise the question of the untranslatability of words and concepts that can reflect the unique features of different languages and cultures.
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The main programme of the festival will be curated by journalist and translator Iryna Slavinska. The programme for children and teenagers will be presented by the writer Olha Rusina, and a special teenage initiative will be organised by the participants of the Literary Lab for Teenagers.
The Book Arsenal will also host a number of professional and special events. The professional programme will be coordinated by Yulia Konoplyana, and the Translatorium festival will present a special block of events on literary translation led by Tanya Rodionova. For the second year in a row, the Book Arsenal Fellowship Programme will become a platform for international exchange of experience among publishers and literary agents.
The festival will take place from 29 May to 1 June 2025. The detailed programme and the list of participants will be published later on the official website of the Book Arsenal.
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