Author

Myroslav Diachenko

A culture journalist keeping a chronicle of literary life: festivals, residencies, prizes, debuts. He pays particular attention to scenes beyond the capital — small presses, local reading communities and the libraries metropolitan reviewers never reach — and publishes an annual survey of small publishers: print runs, themes, new names. He files reports from launches and signing sessions that capture not only the event but the atmosphere around it, and keeps a photographic archive that he passes to libraries as documentation of the process. The country's literary map, he insists, is not reducible to a few large venues, and an event without a trace disappears faster than one expects.