Traditionally, for 6 days the participants will have discussions, lectures, meetings with Ukrainian and foreign essayists, as well as the award ceremony of this year's winner of the Yurii Shevelov Prize. 

ESSAY DAYS 2020 PROGRAM 

• DECEMBER 14 (MONDAY)

Series of author's lectures

17:00 Andrii Liubka. “Features of the author's voice in Ukrainian essays” (online)

18:00 Diana Klochko. “Visual. Why write about art simply and subjectively”

19:00 Yurii Makarov. “Journalism of ideas, not facts. Who has the right for it and who consumes it? ”

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• DECEMBER 15 (TUESDAY)

19:00 Conversation “Yurii Shevelov. Center / Province”

Participants: Tamara Gundorova, Larysa Masenko, Oleksandr Savchuk (online). Moderator Olena Huseinova.

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• DECEMBER 16 (WEDNESDAY)

19:00 Discussion “Essays as storytelling”

Participants: Mariia Tytarenko (online), Olha Herasymiuk, Taras Liutyi, Oleksandr Mykhed. Moderator Iryna Slavinska.

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• DECEMBER 17 (THURSDAY)

19:00 The winner of the Yurii Shevelov Prize 2020 award ceremony.

• DECEMBER 18 (FRIDAY)

19:00 Discussion “Essays in modern media”

Participants: Olia Hnatiuk, Pavlo Kazarin, Orest Drul (online). Moderator Oksana Forostyna.

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• DECEMBER 19 (SATURDAY)

19:00 “Subjectively about the past”. Online conversation with Austrian writer Martin Pollack about historical essays. Moderator Yurko Prokhasko. In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

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Important: due to quarantine, the events will take place with a limited audience, still all events will be broadcast on the PEN Ukraine and the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School Facebook pages.

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Kyiv Essay Days is a mini-festival designed to promote the essay genre, to draw attention to the famous essayists’ work, as well as to introduce Ukrainian essays into the global context.

The 2020 project curator is Anastasiia Levkova.

Organizers of the event: PEN Ukraine and Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

Information partners: espreso.tv, UA: Radio Culture.