Festival program

06 October

Official opening of the 29th Lviv International BookForum

Participant : Olexander Mykhed,

07 October

Participants : Henry Marsh, Rachel Clark, Yurko Prokhasko, Andrii Myzak, Iryna Tsybukh,

Participants : Emma Graham Harrison, Lydia Cacho, Diana Berh, Yaryna Chornohuz, Janine di Giovanni, Viktoria Amelina,

Public talk with Elif Shafak

Participants : Elif Şafak, Charlotte Higgins,

Art in times of conflict

Participants : Diana Berh, Ostap Slyvynskyi, Emma Graham Harrison, Artem Polezhaka, Olexander Mykhed,

Public talk with Yuval Harari and Neil Gaiman

Participants : Sevgil Musayeva, Yuval Harari, Neil Gaiman,

08 October

Morning reading for children with Oleksandr Dermanski

Participant : Sashko Dermanskyi,

The idea of Europe

Participants : Volodymyr Yermolenko, Philipe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova, Misha Glenny, Pavlo Kazarin,

Imperialism and identity

Participants : Olena Styazhkina, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Lydia Cacho, Ihor Pomerantsev, Jon Lee Anderson, Dmytro Krapyvenko,

Participants : Bruno Macaes, Philipe Sands, Emma Winberg, Lyubov Tsybulska, Peter Pomeranzev, Andrii Shapovalov, Maksym Skubenko,

Hope, humanity, and war

Participants : Margaret McMillan, Sergii Plokhii, Yaroslav Hrytsak,

War crimes & memory

Participants : Philipe Sands, Natalia Humeniuk, Stanyslav Asieiev, Johnatan Littell, Andrii Kulykow, Masi Nayyem,

Public talk with Margaret Atwood

Participants : Margaret Atwood, Yurko Prokhasko,

09 October

Morning reading for children with Oleksandr Dermanski

Participant : Sashko Dermanskyi,

Money and culture: how cultural institutions become russia's offshore

Participants : Misha Glenny, Oliver Bullough, Catherine Belton, Vadym Karpiak,

Public talk with Philippe Sands and Viktoria Amelina

Participants : Philipe Sands, Viktoria Amelina,

Journalists and writers in a war

Participants : Michael Katakis, Viktoria Amelina, Jon Lee Anderson, Tetyana Oharkova, Janine di Giovanni,

New reality – new creativity. Pre-promotion of the anthology "War 2022": diaries, essays, poetry

Participants : Mariana Savka, Tetiana Teren, Yevhen Klimakin, Viktoria Amelina, Volodymyr Rafeenko,

Public talk with Abdulrazak Gurnah

Participants : Abdulrazak Gurnah, Alim Aliev,