The 26th International Book Fair – Publishers’ Forum, one of the largest book fairs in Ukraine, ended in Lviv. Every year Polish literature is present at the fair, promoted by the Book Institute and the Polish Institute in Kiev.
On Friday in Lviv, at the International Book Fair, Anatoliy Ivchenko, the owner of the Urbino publishing house, was handed the Publishers’ Forum award for the Ukrainian translation of Banzai. Japonia dla dociekliwych (“Banzai. Japan for the Inquisitive”) by Zofia Fabianowska-Micyk (text) and Joanna Grochocka (illustrations), in the category Best Book for Teenagers.
On Thursday 17, the international conference “Catholic Imagination. The Future of the Catholic Literary Tradition” started at Loyola University in Chicago. This year, it was attended by a strong Polish representation, including Krzysztof Koehler, Deputy Director of the Book Institute for Programmes.