The Last Day: Book Launch and discussion with Yaroslav Melnyk

The Last Day: Book Launch and discussion with Yaroslav Melnyk

The Last Day is an award-winning collection of short stories by Ukrainian-Lithuanian writer Yaroslav Melnik (Jaroslavas Melnikas).

Melnikas has been described by the BBC as one of Ukraine’s most cosmopolitan writers. Ukrainian literary critic and editor of Vsesvit magazine, Dmytro Drozdovskyi, wrote of him, “Melnikas is not like anyone in Ukrainian literature, and his new book is… a mixture of brilliant irony, black humour and a deep despair born of the knowledge of human nature, which seeks catastrophe, so that they may meet God.”

The collection of stories won the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year. The event will be moderated by Svitlana Pyrkalo, writer, panel member of the BBC Ukrainian Book Prize.

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