Writing War and Trauma with Yuliya Musakovska and Maria Tumarkin

How can we speak and write about war? What role does silence play in this process? What does it mean for people and places to survive war? We discussed these questions and more with two brilliant writers, Maria Tumarkin and Yuliya Musakovska, whose works have interrogated war and trauma in uncompromisingly honest and perceptive ways. This episode of The Ukraine Shelf was recorded in front of a live audience at Dim Zvuku in Lviv in collaboration with the INDEX Institute for Documentation and Exchange.

Our guests:

• Yuliya Musakovska is a multi-award-winning poet and translator from Lviv. She has published six volumes of poetry in Ukrainian and has written for many magazines and journals in Ukraine and internationally. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her first collection in English translation, T ...