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На аудіо акторка і майстриня художнього читання Софія Федорцева декламує твір "Вечірня година" Василя Стефаника.

"Evening Hour" is read by Sofia Fedortseva

Ternopil, May 4, 2019.

Performance by writer, musician and public figure Serhiy Zhadan at the "Yi" art festival.

Serhiy Zhadan recites his own poems

The largest book market in Kyiv, Petrivka, December 13, 2016.

In the video: shopping aisles, books on the shelves, people buying books, fiction, children's literature, textbooks, certificate of inspection of children's art objects, Agreement on granting a license to Kharkiv publishing house Ranok, conclusion of the sanitary and epidemiological examination, beginning and annotation of Halyna Pahutyak's book The Kingdom.

Petrivka Book Market

In the video: Ukrainian writer Petro Savchuk reads his own humorous stories. 

Reference: Petro Mykolayovych Savchuk is a Ukrainian writer, poet, and humorist. Member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine since 1998. In 1993, he became one of the co-founders of the Khmelnytskyi City Literary Union “Podillia”. He is called the “nightingale of the people”. Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, laureate of the regional prize named after M. Godovants and named after Ya. Galchevsky “For asceticism in state building”. 

Humorous jokes by Petro Savchuk

Kharkiv, Dergachi, 1973.

In the video: poet Viktor Tymchenko typing on a typewriter, speaking to employees of the Turbo Compressor Plant, participating in a meeting of a literary studio in Dergachi, Viktor Boyko quoting a poem, analyzing a poem, the literary editorial board of the Zorya newspaper, a literary club at the Dovzhankivska school, a poem by Tanya Khryplavets.

Literary Kharkiv region

Radio program "My Literature", April 2, 2009.

Guest of the studio is writer Olga Bashkirova. Conversation about creativity, literary preferences, the novel "The Heart of Gangster Uri", the transition to the Ukrainian language. In the program, the poet recites her own poems.

Editor: Mykola Baydyuk.

Conversation with writer Olga Bashkyrova

Volyn television, editorial office of literary and artistic programmes, 20 May 1994. A meeting of the Pervotsvit literary studio in Lutsk gymnasium No. 21. A conversation with the head of the literary studio, the leader of the Volyn Sixties, Dmytro Ivashchenko.

In the video, Dmytro Ivashchenko analyses the works of students and children reciting poetry.

Dmytro Ivashchenko: meeting of the Pervotsvit literary studio

The radio program “My Literature” was recorded on November 20, 2008. The studio's guest is Pavlo Volvach, a poet and prose writer, radio host, and the Vasyl Symonenko Literary Prize winner. 

They talk about Zaporizhzhia, his family tree, his formation as a poet, his favorite authors, his collection South East and novel Class, the role of the writer in the present, and his future creative plans. 

The poet recites his poems.

It is hosted and edited by Mykola Baidyuk.

Pavlo Volvach: a conversation with a novelist

Audio recording from July 27, 1956. Ukrainian actress, director, and theater educator Polina Tabachnykova-Niatko reads the short story “At the Hermit” by writer Arkhip Teslenko.

Reference: Arkhip Teslenko is a Ukrainian writer called the youngest classic of Ukrainian literature. Teslenko's works are complete of tragedy: he depicted rural life, class stratification, and popular protest. Since 1905, he has been a member of the revolutionary organization Peasant Union.

Polina Nyatko reads the story “At the Hermit's House”

Recorded in 1983. The poetry of the literary critic, poet, and writer of the Executed Renaissance Mykola Zerov is read by Ukrainian actor and director Volodymyr Opanasenko: “In the Donbas,” ‘Twins,’ ‘Prince Ihor,’ ‘Creative Silence,’ ‘In May,’ ‘Maiden,’ ‘Strawberries,’ ”How Gentle the Autumn Is.”

Poetry by Mykola Zerov

The main editorial office of the Chernivtsi Regional Radio Committee's artistic broadcasting program, “And there, behind the window pane,” aired on October 31, 1990. The program featured a conversation with Ukrainian poet and novelist Anna Dushchak.

The video shows archival photos of the Dushchak family, the house, the poetess reciting poetry, commentary by Valentyna Bondar, Anna Dushchak talking about writing poetry, fundraising at a charity dinner for the publication of Anna Dushchak's collection, Vasyl Ilashchuk, Mykhailo Ivasyuk, and Tamara Severyniuk speaking at the dinner.

A conversation with the novelist Anna Dushchak

TV program of the Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company “Literary Lviv”, January 1, 2004.

The program features speeches by Ukrainian writers, poets, and literary critics at the literary evening “The Train Arrives” at the Hnat Khotkevych Palace of Culture in Lviv.

Comments: writer Yuriy Andrukhovych, literary critic Oleksandr Boychenko, writer and translator Tymofiy Havryliv, poet Viktor Neborak, writer Yuriy Vynnychuk.

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