Lecture: Contemporary Ukrainian Children's Literature

The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław has the honor to invite you to the special event

DATE: 21 April 2022

TIME: 18.00 (CET, Central European Time

12:00pm (noon) (Eastern Standard Time)

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VENUE: MS Teams

RSVP: If you are interested in taking part in the lecture, please contact us by email by 19 April at the following address: justyna.deszcz-tryhubczak@uwr.edu.pl

During the meeting, Dr. Kachak and Dr. Świetlicki will talk about the development of the Ukrainian children’s book market. The emergence of multiple high-quality publishers issuing works by renowned and upcoming writers and illustrators has prompted the appearance of new themes and trends, as well as the growth of local research on books for young readers. Because children’s literature has become one of Ukraine’s most outstanding cultural export products in the last few years, Kachak and Świetlicki will also discuss translations from Ukrainian into other languages and recommend titles that they believe should follow in the steps of internationally-successful books, such as those by Romana Romanyshyn and Andrij Lesiv.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Dr. Tetiana Kachak is Professor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) and a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature. Prof. Kachak is the author of many book monographs, including Trends in the Development of Ukrainian Fiction for Children and Youth at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2018), Ukrainian Literature for Children and Youth (2016), and International Literature for Children (2014), as well as numerous articles devoted to the study of children’s and young adult literature. She has presented her work at international conferences in Australia, Sweden, and Poland.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki (@drswietlicki) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław (Institute of English Studies). He is currently a visiting Kosciuszko Foundation scholar at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), where he is working on a book project on Ukrainian Canadian historical fiction. His expertise is contemporary children’s and YA literature and culture, memory and gender studies, as well as popular culture and film. Dr. Świetlicki is the author of more than 60 scholarly publications in English, Polish, Ukrainian, and Croatian, including a book monograph, seven co-edited volumes, and numerous articles. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018) and has held multiple fellowships in Munich, Kyiv, and Harvard.