Poland is a key international publishing partner for Ukraine. This cooperation is especially important during the war taking place beyond the eastern border.
On April 25, as part of the “Country of Books” exhibition, a Ukrainian-Polish publishing roundtable was held.
The meeting was attended by many experts – Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute, Maciej Jastrzębski, director of the Polish Institute in Kyiv, Jacek Kuśmierczyk, chancellor of the Polish Brotherhood of Gutenberg Knights, as well as Maria Deskur, president of the Universal Reading Foundation, who gave an online speech. During the event, famous writers and translators Julia Bereżko-Kamińska, Olha Olkhova, Natalia Sydiachenko also spoke.
The meeting was led by Dmytro Drozdovskyi, editor-in-chief of the oldest Ukrainian literary magazine Vsesvit, and Ihor Stepurin, executive director of the Ukrainian Publishers and Booksellers Association.
The Universal Reading Foundation has been actively supporting the Ukrainian publishing industry since the beginning of the war, working to save reading. A campaign was created to support Ukraine #BookProtects, in which over 160 thousand books were distributed to refugee children and parents in need, while supporting Ukrainian publishers. Last year, an international conference was also held at the initiative of the FPC Literacy for Democracy – simultaneously in Warsaw and Kiev, the aim of which was to emphasize the importance of reading and book culture for building and developing democracy.
