The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology (Ukrainian Studies)

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"The White Chalk of Days invites us to enter the world of contemporary Ukrainian literature as it grapples with its past and designs its future. In these poems and stories, the present is a palimpsest of national history and identity. The translations in this anthology succeed in awakening readers to the sensuous and musical world of a literary history that deserves to blossom and be known to all." Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, author of Personal Science (2017)

The publication of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series. The anthology presents translations of literary works by Series guests that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today's Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.

Co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Series has recurrently organized readings in the US for Ukraine's leading writers since 2008.