The BBC’s new historical drama War and Peace seems to have started a trend in the UK, exemplified by bohemian-style discussions about world literary classics coming from Eastern Europe. While western audiences wipe the dust from books by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol on their bookshelves, publishers in the East are struggling to attract new readers, and to change the nature of publishing business, trying to make reading a more attractive practice. At the frontline of these changing patterns appears to be the oldest Ukrainian publishing house ‘Osnovy’ that has been introducing innovative solutions to the Ukrainian book market. Besides, the …read more
Source: Ukrainian Institute, London
