Meridian Czernowitz

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Meridian Czernowitz is a project of the Chernivtsi regional public organization "Cultural Capital", which deals with literary management and aims to return Chernivtsi to the cultural map of Europe.

Since 2012, it has positioned itself as the International Literary Corporation, which includes:

  • Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival (held in early September in Chernivtsi)
  • Meridian Lutsk International Poetry Festival (first held on 6–8 October 2017 in Lutsk)
  • Meridian Poltava International Poetry Festival (first held on 8–10 June 2018 in Poltava)
  • book projects
  • Paul-Celan-Literaturzentrum

Description[]

The main goal of the Meridian Czernowitz festival is to return Chernivtsi to the cultural map of Europe and to develop a dialogue between contemporary Ukrainian poets and their foreign colleagues.

The festival program consists of poetic readings, public discussions, lectures, exhibitions of photo poetry and sculptures related to poetry, theatrical and musical performances, book presentations, video poetry, poetry in animation, poetic slams, electropoetry, youth scene, etc.

Festival participants[]

Participants of the festival are poets, musicians and artists from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Romania, Israel, France, Great Britain and the US. Selected works of the authors participating in the festival are published annually in a separate collection of poems in the original languages and translated by (Ukraine), (Germany), (Ukraine), Beatrix Kersten (Germany), Chrystina Nazarkevych (Ukraine) and others.[1]

The festival is also a platform for the presentation of Ukrainian poets and writers at literary forums in Europe and the world, including the , the Leipzig Book Fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair and others.

Meridian Czernowitz initiative group and working team[]

Meridian Czernowitz's initiative group[2] includes: poet, publicist, Radio Liberty journalist ,[3] writer, essayist and translator Yuriy Andrukhovych,[4] literary critic Petro Rychlo,[5] translator Mark Belorusets,[6] public figure ,[7] poet, novelist, publicist and translator Serhiy Zhadan,[8] human rights activist and public figure Yosyf Zisels,[9] PhD in History, public figure, Honorary Consul of Austria in Chernivtsi Serhiy Osachuk.[10]

The president of the International Literary Corporation Meridian Czernowitz is Sviatoslav Pomerantsev, the vice-president of Meridian Czernowitz (from 2013 to the present) and the curator of the international projects of the corporation is ,[11] the press secretary – Lilia Shutyak.[12]

The festival is organized by the Chernivtsi regional public organization "Cultural Capital". Festival partners are: Federal Foreign Office of Germany, , Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, embassies of participating countries, Goethe-Institut, , Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia, (Berlin, Germany), and other cultural foundations and cultural institutions.[13]

Book projects[]

Meridian Czernowitz is not a publishing house in the traditional sense – there is no staff, office, production and warehouses. For each of the book projects, the organizers involve specialists who work with the author's manuscript.

Meridian Czernowitz publishes literary texts by contemporary authors. Usually five to seven titles are published during the year, including books in Ukrainian, Russian and bilingual (German-Ukrainian). Among the authors are Yuriy Andrukhovych,[14][15][16] Igor Pomerantsev,[17][18][19][20] Oksana Zabuzhko,[21] Serhiy Zhadan,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Taras Prokhasko, Yuriy Izdryk, , , , Ostap Slyvynsky , Andriy Lyubka, , , Irena Karpa, Kateryna Babkina, Ada Rogovtseva, , , , , , Peter Zalmayev, Kateryna Kalytko, , , Iryna Tsilyk. In addition, translations by Robert Walzer, Tadeusz Dombrowski, Pedro Lenz, and Paul Celan are published. In 2010–2012, the Almanac of Poems and Translations of the festival was published.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Festival Participants 2010–2019 | International Literary Corporation Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Initiative Group | International Literary Corporation Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Ігор Померанцев / Великобританія-Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Юрій Андрухович / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Петро Рихло / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Марк Бєлорусець / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Святослав Померанцев / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Сергій Жадан / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Йосиф Зісельс / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Сергій Осачук / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Євгенія Лопата / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Лілія Шутяк / Україна | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Партнери Meridian Czernowitz | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  14. ^ "Юрій Андрухович "Лексикон інтимних міст" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  15. ^ "Юрій Андрухович "Лексикон інтимних міст"-міні | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  16. ^ "Юрій Андрухович "Коханці Юстиції" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  17. ^ "Игорь Померанцев "Винные лавки" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  18. ^ "Ігор Померанцев "Czernowitz. Черновцы. Чернівці" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  19. ^ "Игорь Померанцев "Поздний сбор" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  20. ^ "Игорь Померанцев "Вы меня слышите?" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  21. ^ "Оксана Забужко "З мапи книг і людей" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  22. ^ "Сергій Жадан і "Собаки в космосі" "Бийся за неї" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  23. ^ "Сергій Жадан "Життя Марії" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  24. ^ "Сергій Жадан "Тамплієри" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  25. ^ "Сергій Жадан "Інтернат" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  26. ^ "Сергій Жадан "Антена" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  27. ^ "Сергій Жадан "Список кораблів" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  28. ^ "Сергій Жадан "Хлібне перемир'я" | Мiжнародна лiтературна корпорацiя Meridian Czernowitz" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 September 2020.

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