Dialogues on War

Dialogues on War is a series of online conversations between Ukrainian and foreign intellectuals about the experience of war and their own observations. The project was launched by PEN Ukraine after the beginning of the Russian army’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, implemented in partnership with PEN International, PEN America, Ukrainian Institute, Ukrainian Institute London, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

Over 80 renowned Ukrainian and foreign artists and thinkers had searched the language for an honest dialogue on war – among them Anne Applebaum, Myroslav Marynovych, Edith Eger, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Timothy Snyder, Victoria Amelina, Orhan Pamuk, Iryna Tsilyk, Francis Fukuyama, Oleksandr Mykhed, Margaret Atwood and dozens of other outstanding contemporary minds.

Subsequently, the PEN Ukraine team created the web version of the Dialogues on War where all the conversations have been gathered along with essays from Ukrainian and foreign authors considering what Ukrainians had learned about themselves and what they must never forget. The eponymous book is going to be published by Vivat Publishing House within the PEN Ukraine Library series. On May 31, 2024, the pre-sales were announced.