Mykola Riabchuk
Literature
Spring 2026 - group 1
Writer and Essayist — Ukraine
Mykola Riabchuk is a Ukrainian prose writer and essayist, the honorary president of the Ukrainian PEN-center, and a co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Kyiv-based Krytyka monthly. He has penned a dozen books that have been translated into several languages (Polish, French, German, English, Serbian, and Hungarian) and received several national and international awards. His last book in English is titled At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden - Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization
While in Bogliasco, Mykola will be working on a collection of essays and short stories titled “Repossessions”, which explores the humanitarian aspects of the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine given the incredible suffering, destruction, and “dispossessions” inflicted on peaceful citizens by a military assault. At a meta-discursive level, it seeks to inspire a symbolic healing of wounds and retrieval of losses by means of remembering and reimagining, reconnection and reconstruction, cherishing feelings of human affinity and solidarity.