Words and Bullets
Author: Natalya Korniyenko
Illustrator: Oksana Gadzhiy
Publishing House: Vivat
Year: 2024
Number of Pages: 400
The project is implemented by the Chytomo cultural and publishing media and PEN Ukraine with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, hundreds of Ukrainian writers and journalists have enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine or been engaged in active volunteer work to supply the army. Those who used to change the world with their texts had to stand up to defend their country.
Words and Bullets is a series of conversations with the people who had been developing Ukrainian literary process and journalism for years but turned from narrators into protagonists of stories – those who protect our present and make our future possible.
The book includes 24 interviews with Artem Chapeye, Dmytro Krapyvenko, Halyna Kruk, Anatolii Dnistrovyi, Oleksii Sinchenko, Victoria Amelina, Andrii Lyubka, Bohdan Kolomiichuk, Valerii Puzik, Petro Yatsenko, Ihor Mitrov, Yaryna Chornohuz, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Yevheniia Podobna, Maksym Kryvtsov, Maksym Skubenko, Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko, Pavlo Stekh, Serhii Shebelist, Pavlo Vyshebaba, Dmytro Lazutkin, Lesya Hanzha, Fedir Shandor, and Oleksandr Mykhed.
