Ukrainian writers Halyna Kruk and Irena Karpa participated in the First Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival
13 April 2024 10:00
Ukrainian writers Halyna Kruk and Irena Karpa participated in the First Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival.
On March 19-21, 2024, Ukrainian writers Karpa Irena and Halyna Kruk with the support of the Embassy of Ukraine in India participated in the First Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival 2024 organised by Dibrugarh University in association with the Foundation for Arts, Culture and Literature (FOCAL).
The Festival was conceived as a celebration of literature and dialogue among writers, poets, and literary enthusiasts from all over the world, engaging under a single roof approximately 5000 students and over 80 writers and poets from nearly 20 countries.
Panel discussions, in-conversation sessions, reading sessions, book signing, workshops, and cultural programmes were the basic components of the three-day festival.
Both authors presented writing workshops and engaged in compelling discussions with the audience.
Thank you, dear writers, for your valuable participation and expertise sharing!
Congratulations to the organisers of #dibrulitfest for creating such an excellent platform for cross-cultural exchange! Special thanks to Mr. Rahul Jain.
Looking forward to further cooperation!
ABOUT WRITERS:
Irena Karpa is a writer, movie scenarist and author of the books “Good News from the Aral Sea”, “How to Get Married as Many Times as You Want”, “Don’t Tell Anyone”, and others. During her postgraduate years, she lived in Indonesia and travelled a lot in India and Nepal, that experience enters into her novels “Freud Would Cry” and “Pizza Himalaya”.
Karpa worked as the First Secretary for Culture at the Embassy of Ukraine in France (2015-2019).
Author of “My Story: practical course for young writers”, “Therapeutic Writing in the Time of War” and a curator of writing retreats. During the full-scale war, Irena Karpa often appears in French media advocating for Ukraine.
Halyna Kruk is an award-winning poet and prose writer, translator, and scholar from Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of 5 books of poetry, An Adult Woman (2017), Co(an) existence (2013), The Face beyond the Photograph (2005), Footprints on Sand and Journeys in Search of a Home (both 1997), collection of short stories Anyone but me (2021), and 4 books for children.
She is a winner of numerous literary awards in Ukraine, among them The Sundara Ramaswamy Prize. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages, selected works of Halyna Kruk were translated to Hindi language by 
Indian poet Nidheesh Tyagi.