Velshi Banned Book Club: Ukrainian literature and the weight of history #CDNNews #Economy #Canada

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The Ukrainian famine became the subject of the dramatic novel The Age of Red Ants. “Not a single one of the stories is fictional, they all have a real basis, all the names used in the text are real,” says Ukraine scholar Tereza Chlaňová about the harrowing book by novelist Tania Pjanková. The work has just been published in Czech translation.

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Velshi Banned Book Club: Ukrainian literature and the weight of history #CDNNews #Economy #Canada

Despite losing Ukrainian authors, journalists, artists, and more than a third of the nation’s book printing capacity, demand for Ukrainian literature is on the rise as Ukrainians strive to secure their future and preserve their history. “The weight of history is really the motivating force for Ukrainians resisting today,” says Ukrainian author and Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov. “They know that the alternative of surrender is actually worse than t…