This year, the competition received 179 applications from publishers around the world — specialists at the Ukrainian Book Institute received 18 more submissions than last year. After the technical selection stage, 176 projects submitted by 119 publishers from 44 countries advanced for evaluation.

Following the assessment, the Expert Council supported 100 translation projects. According to the plan, all of them will be published during this year.

The largest number of translations is planned into Polish — 9 titles, English — 8, and Serbian — 7. They are followed by Czech and German with 6 titles each. Five books each will be published in Arabic, French, and Italian.

In total, Ukrainian books will be translated into 30 languages. In addition to those mentioned above, the list also includes Slovak, Spanish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Macedonian — 4 books each; Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Georgian — 3 each; Swedish, Azerbaijani, Portuguese, and Bengali — 2 each. One book each will be published in Finnish, Romanian, Hebrew, Japanese, Estonian, Hungarian, Danish, Albanian, and Bosnian.

Notably, books published within the Translate Ukraine program will appear not only in Europe but also on other continents.

In Lebanon, readers will be able to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the Carpathians through “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, while Taras Shevchenko’s “Haidamaky” will also be published there. In Egypt, young readers will have the chance to discover how to play hide-and-seek with a Ukrainian great-grandmother: “This Is How I Am, Like Grandma Ustia” by Natalia Misiuk will be published in Arabic.

In Brazil, Lyubko Deresh’s “The Gaze of Medusa” and Artur Dron’s “Hemingway Knows Nothing” will be published in Portuguese. In India, translations of Ukrainian classical poets will be published in Bengali.

Foreign publishers have shown particular interest in the contemporary war testimony “Hemingway Knows Nothing”, which will be published in Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, English, Slovak, Georgian, French, and, as mentioned above, Portuguese. The mystical detective novel “I See You Are Interested in Darkness” by Illarion Pavliuk will be available to readers in Finnish, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Azerbaijani. “Amadoka” by Sofia Andrukhovych is set to be published in French, Spanish, Lithuanian, and Azerbaijani.

A detailed list of the winning projects is available via link.

The waiting list is here. 

The Translate Ukraine program aims to increase the international visibility of Ukrainian literature and support translators and publishers. It helps make works by Ukrainian authors more accessible to readers worldwide.