Forgottenness Book Launch

A recent arrival on the Irish publishing scene, Bullaun Press has chosen literature in translation as its sole focus. It is the first press in Ireland to be dedicated to the artform of translation. The Arts Council of Ireland funds the work of Bullaun Press, for which we are hugely grateful.

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Join Ukrainian author Tanja Maljartschuk, in conversation with Olesya Zdorovetska, for the launch of the latest translation of her work.

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Forgottenness Launch: Award-winning Ukrainian author Tanja Maljartschuk, in conversation with Olesya Zdorovetska.Join us as we celebrate the launch of Forgottenness (BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2016, Usedom Literary Prize 2022), a captivating novel from contemporary Ukrainian author Tanja Maljartschuk, translated into English by Zenia Tompkins.Mark your calendars for an evening of literature in translation as we share discussion, readings (in English &amp; Ukrainian), and perhaps even a few glasses of wine!Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase before/after the event or pre-order now to be the first to get your hands on a copy: <a href="https://bullaunpress.com/books/forgottenness/" title="https://bullaunpress.com/books/forgottenness/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bullaunpress.com/books/forgottenness/ </a>

About the BookIn exile, days flow like tears.Two tales of exile intertwined into a profound double portrait, Forgottenness painstakingly traces parallels between the historical and the contemporary, between the collective and the individual, between the histories of two people born on the same day, a century apart.Time is a big blue whale. It devours me …The narrator, a writer grappling with her growing anxiety and obsessive thoughts, becomes fixated on Viacheslav Lypynskyi (1882-1931), a once significant figure in the struggle for Ukrainian independence who has since fallen into oblivion, into the gaping mouth of Time.As she plunges into her nation’s history to come to terms with her own, we slowly uncover the complex relationship between time, memory, and identity to confront the question – what does it mean to remember?

About the AuthorRecipient of last year’s Theodor Kramer Prize for Writing in Resistance and Exile and one of Ukraine's most prolific contemporary authors, Tanja Maljartschuk has published three novels and several collections of short prose and poetry. She now writes in German as well as Ukrainian, with her work having previously been translated into more than ten languages.

Endorsements‘Both personal and political, this book rages against time and oblivion as all true literature does.’ Georgi Gospodinov (International Booker Prize Winner 2023)‘At once an electrifying personal narrative, and a vast European chronicle of war, memory and politics, this novel is timely and intensely charged.’ Neil Hegarty ‘This intriguing novel skilfully navigates the complexities, tensions and intrigues of Ukraine’s emerging identity in the early years of the 20th  century, in parallel with a more contemporary story of a destructive obsession with the past.’ Lia Mills'I didn't want this beguiling and immersive novel to end. It’s that unusual creation, an intimate epic, and its characters continue to flood my thoughts. The translation does justice to the author’s virtuoso performance.’ Martina Devlin‘Forgottenness is quietly magnificent. Through the interwoven Ukrainian lives therein, Maljartschuk has created a truly singular work, one that touches meaningfully and without pomp or pretension on selfhood, narrative, time and legacy. This is one of those rare books whose sentences unfurl through the silences we forget we're living in.’ Lucy Sweeney Byrne‘[A] vivid,compelling exploration of the lives of two individuals, born a century apart, each grappling with Ukrainian identity, memory and survival. Amid the chaos of brutal occupations, shifting political borders and the Soviet policy of “destroying harmful history [and] lobotomizing memory”, Maljartschuk traces what it means to be denied language, culture and a homeland of one's own.’ Catherine Dunne‘An impressively sincere self-inquiry about identity.’ - Jury of the Usedom Prize, led by Olga Tokarczuk

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