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Release of the program "Book.UA"

Release of the program "Book.UA"

2010, 37 min

National Television Company of Ukraine, 2010. The issue of the program "Book. UA" covers the following topics:
—fantastic success of Ukrainian science fiction writers in Russia: Yana Dubynyanska, Mykhailo Nazarenko, Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko;
— results of the International Ukrainian Language Competition named after Petro Yatsyk;
— presentation of the disc "Oksana Zabuzhko reads her poems" from the collection "Second attempt";
— announcement of the publication of a new book by writer Serhiy Zhadan "Voroshilovgrad";
— opening of a photo exhibition by writer and photographer Oles Ilchenko;
— interview with writer Vasyl Shklyar about his book "Black Raven" ("The Leftover").
In the column "What to read?":
— what do Vitaliy Portnikov's book "The Virgin in the Synagogue" and Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" have in common;
— Anton Sanchenko presents the book "Honey with Decalon" by Yuri Kamaev;
— Folio Publishing House PR Manager Natalka Kovalchuk talks about José Saramago's book "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ".
Also in the program are stories about the book successes and profits from the books of US President Barack Obama; James Gordon Farrell's publication "Problems" won the so-called Lost Booker; a new story by Russian writer Yevgeny Grishkovets about the USA; literary censorship in Israel of Leo Tolstoy's book "Anna Karenina" and Sophocles' drama "Antigone", as well as the success of the Cheburashka character in Japan.

On the video: Yana Dubynyanska; Mykhailo Nazarenko; the Dyachenko couple; Boris Strugatsky; leading actress Natalia Sumska; poet Ivan Drach; among those present in the hall is the writer Vasyl Shklyar; Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine Filaret; performances by creative teams; a fragment of a performance by writer Oksana Zabuzhko; books by Oksana Zabuzhko: "The Book of Being. Chapter Four", "Notre Dame d'Ukraine", "Shevchenko's Myth of Ukraine"; fragments of performances by Serhiy Zhadan; exhibition by Oles Ilchenko.

Commented by: writer, executive director of the League of Ukrainian Philanthropists Mykhailo Slaboshpytsky; writer and photographer Oles Ilchenko.

The following people worked on the program: scriptwriter and host — Maryna Bondarenko; journalists — Volodymyr Khomenko, Ilona Kovch, Darya Vlasenko; directors — Kateryna Kobyakova, Maryna Seredenko; assistant director — Dmitry Mitusov; cameramen — Andriy Dudko, Volodymyr Khomenko, Felix Shevardin; TZHK engineers — Ivan Chernota, Igor Honchar; lighting engineers — Oleksandr Hubsky, Serhiy Kornyushyn; editing engineers — Volodymyr Khomenko, Gennady Arentov, Inna Yanchenko; computer graphics by Serhiy Kovalev; design by Olena Matorina, Serhiy Matorin; makeup by Lesya Samoyed, Olga Bondarenko; administrator — Nadiya Shevchenko; executive producer — Svitlana Karasenko; project manager — Maryna Bondarenko.