The Maksym Rylsky Central City Library in Irpin has received published books by participants of the Irpin Literary Prize. They were donated by the prize’s organising committee and the Vidvazhnykh society.

This was reported by first deputy mayor Oleksandr Pashchynskyi.

Library readers can now read works by contemporary Ukrainian authors presented at the prize.

Books by Irpin Literary Prize participants at the libraryPhoto: Irpin City Council
Books by Irpin Literary Prize participants at the library

The prize was awarded on 17 October. This year’s laureates are Oleksandr Pavlenko for “I Tak Buvaie”, Viktoriia Olishchuk for the poetry collection “Perepysuvannia Tyshi”, Iryna Silvestrova for “Pilihrymy z Maibutnoho”, Yevhen Dubrovskyi for “Istoriia, Yaku Varto Pochuty” and Andrii Sokol-Chernilovskyi for “Buty Poruch. Zapysky Kapelana”.

The prize was founded by Volodymyr Karpliuk and Volodymyr Spivak. According to Pashchynskyi, it is Ukraine’s largest literary prize by prize money.

As a reminder, this week Irpin allocated UAH 8 million to people whose homes were damaged by a missile strike.

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