Oksana Zabuzhko in conversation

Oksana Zabuzhko in conversation with Georgina Godwin at the London Library. 22 February 2023.
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On 24 February 2022, Oksana Zabuzhko was in the middle of an international book tour when she learned that Russia had launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One year on, Zabuzhko joins us at London Library in conversation with Georgina Godwin, to reflect on Ukraine’s resistance, the country’s literary scene during times of war, her experience of displacement and her latest work, My Longest Book Tour.
Oksana Zabuzhko is Ukraine’s major contemporary writer and the author of more than 20 books in different genres. She is best known for her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, translated into eighteen languages. Other celebrated works include the award-winning novel The Museum of Abandoned Secrets and the collection of short stories Your Ad Could Go Here. In her latest book, My Longest Book Tour, she writes about the experience of displacement and the historical origins of Russia's war against Ukraine. She is a patron of the Ukrainian Institute London.
Georgina Godwin is an independent broadcast journalist. A regular chair of literary events, she is Books Editor for Monocle 24 , presenter of the in-depth interview show 'Meet the Writers' and a frequent anchor of current affairs programmes 'The Globalist' and 'The Briefing.
Ukrainian Institute London is an independent charity dedicated to strengthening Ukraine’s voice in the UK and beyond.

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Thank you, Ukrainian Institute London and London Library for this amazing conversation!

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Oksana Zabuzhko (b. 1960) is probably Ukraine’s major contemporary writer and one of the country’s leading public intellectuals. A daughter of blacklisted parents during the Soviet purges of the Seventies, it was not until the perestroika that her first book was published. After the publication of her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), which in 2006 was named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living as a free-lance author. Oksana Zabuzhko's most famous book in the non-fiction genre is Notre Dame d'Ukraine: A Ukrainian Woman in the Conflict of Mythologies (2007) ....from Wikipedia

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[@louise_rose]

Oksana is a puffed-up Politruk type who's made a media career for herself, late in life, by jumping on the bandwagon of the rabid media campaign after the Ukraine war escalated a year and a half ago. A typical media activist rather than any kind of serious writer or cultural analyst, and her efforts to "reclaim" numerous Russian authors and classical composers by referring to that they were born on territory that much later came to belong within modern-day Ukraine, or had a Ukrainian grandfather or the like, are misguided. Normally this type of "Blut und Boden" reasoning about who "owns" a cultural heritage is barely tolerated in modern academic circles but some Ukrainian publicists and spin doctors are clearly getting a free pass. She seriously lost me when she said in some other interview that Russian authors don't have any sense of humour - yeah right? 😁😆

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