During the first stage, the “Espreso. Readers’ Choice 2020” book award received 165 applications from 38 Ukrainian publishing houses. The organizing committee carefully checked all publications sent by publishing houses for compliance with the requirements. After that, Long lists of books for the competition were formed in three nominations: “Literature for adults”, “Literature for teenagers” and “Literature for children”
By the second stage, 97 publications from 29 publishing houses were included in the Long List of books in the “Literature for adults” category.
The second part of the list:
“Unia”, Volodymyr Yeshkilev (“Folio” Publishing House)
“The new force was fermenting and foaming, like young wine, giving birth to wild hopes and ambitious projects. In dark and secret places, the new power met the old – gray and wild, infused with intoxicating honeys and witches’ brews. Mixing, these two formed a mixture full of energy, movement, joyful rage and enterprising madness,” — Volodymyr Yeshkilev about Ukraine in the middle of the 17th century in the historical novel “Union”, the first of the “Cursed Hetmans” trilogy.
The novel tells the story of Ivan Ostapovich Vyhovskyi and the betrayed hopes of the hereditary Ukrainian nobility, which hoped for a worthy place in Ukraine-Rus in the most modern of the contemporary states — the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, about the role of the Orthodox Church in those events, about the catastrophe that befell the Hetman state after the victorious Battle of Konotop. As in Yeshkilev’s previous novels, the artistic reconstruction is complemented by a carefully checked “internal encyclopedia” of the work, which collects little-known and sometimes suppressed information about the Hetman era and events related to it.
“History of civilization. Ukraine. Volume 1. From the Cimmerians to Russia (10th century BC – 9th century)”, compiled by Mykhailo Videyko (Folio Publishing House)
Two millennia of history on the territory of modern Ukraine appear on the pages of this publication. The book is divided into two parts: the first covers the period from the 10th to the 3rd centuries. n. e., the second – from the III century. to the 9th century The content of the book was developed with the aim of involving in its writing a wide range of specialists who have best researched and understood certain issues. Information about language, religion, mythology, technical achievements, economy, art and military affairs of ancient times is collected under one cover. The book contains a lot of unique information, the results of the latest research, some chapters became the first swallows in the coverage of certain topics in such a volume.
“Galician saga. The Great War”, Petro Luschyk (“Folio” Publishing House)
“The Great War” is the first book of the “Galician Saga”, the events of which begin in 1914.
In the Galician village of Peretyni, life is leisurely and even uninteresting. Perhaps the only exception in the middle of the gray Budenshchyna is the confrontation between supporters of the Ukrainian “Prosvita” and Muscophiles, which sometimes turns into a fight. However, the peaceful existence suddenly ends on a fine July day in 1914, when the inhabitants of Peretyn learn about the beginning of the war. From now on, each of them has his own path and his own destiny. The Talerhof concentration camp, the first in Europe, awaits Muscophiles; adult men are drafted into the Austrian army; patriotic young people join the ranks of the Ukrainian Riflemen. The peasants who remained at home fully enjoyed the “delights” of the Russian occupation and the arbitrariness of “their” Austrian gendarmes. When those who should have perished died, and the lucky ones returned home, it became clear that everything was just beginning…
“Marichka Kyiv. Betrayal”, Halyna Horytska (Folio Publishing House)
She is beautiful and smart. It should be added that most women would give anything to change their lives for the life of Marichka Bohdanivna, the wife of an influential businessman, who is also close to the political beau monde of Ukraine. Her husband – young, kind, handsome – adores his wife. However, this idyll is destroyed by a chance meeting… However, is anything in this world accidental?
This novel is not about crazy love, not about psychopathy, and not even about friendship. It is about female friendship, which every girl is looking for, and only a few find.
“The Exile and the Trained Witch”, Andriy Kokotyukha (“Vivat” publishing house)
Summer of 1911. Platon Chechel, a former Kyiv investigator and now an exile, carries out a delicate assignment in Poltava. But he is detained in the city by another story – not a criminal one, but a mystical one. Something strange is happening in the country. The weather is deteriorating, cattle are dying en masse, a young local landlady is accused of witchcraft, and behind all this are old family sins of strangers – bloody retribution for which is inevitable. What devils are hiding in the swampy corner of Poltava Oblast? Why do the owners smile and at the same time sharpen knives on strangers? Establishing the truth for Plato is a matter of honor. And survival…
“Under a foreign flag”, Lora Pidhirna (“KM-BUKS Publishing Group”)
Holodomor reaps a bitter harvest in Ukraine. The Green Wedge can become the main support of Ukrainians in the fight against the Soviet occupation, “to keep Moscow in check”. Meanwhile, Old Europe is in anticipation of a new imminent disaster, because in the bowels of the Weimar Republic, Hitlerism is slowly rising to its feet… New dangerous tests await Mark Shved as well. Now, by the will of fate, he is a special agent of MI6 and together with the young British journalist Jan Fleming has to carry out a secret, dangerous mission in Harbin and Soviet Moscow… However, Marko remains a knight of the Secret Ukrainian Legion. It is not easy to solve the secret of his family and not lose the love given to him by fate. He is just as cruel: in the Far East, and even in London.
The new adventures of the Ukrainian “James Bond” – Mark Shved, unfolding against the historical background of the 30s, masterfully written by the author, Laura Pidhirna, impress with their realism and drama.
Dangers, secrets, love… And most importantly – Ukrainian history, the unlearned and unlearned lessons of which can have very painful consequences for contemporaries.
“The last abode of rebellion. Leoburg”, Iryna Grabovska (“KM-BUKS Publishing Group”)
“The last abode of rebellion” is a fantastic detective story, the action of which takes place in the city of scientists and inventors Leoburg, in a parallel world where powerful empires – British, Russian, Austro-Bosnian and Japanese – rule. The world is shaky and illusory, and the specter of a great war once again hovers over the continent.
The first book is an immersion in the magical world of Leoburg, unraveling its secrets, and in the second book, difficult trials and espionage intrigues of bloodthirsty empires await the heroes. Is it possible to stop the world war? Will the small town survive under the onslaught of several big enemies? What will you have to sacrifice for your loved ones?
The “Leoburg” dilogy is one of the few works in the steampunk genre in Ukrainian literature. Usually, the elements of steampunk – retrofuturism, entourage of the end of the 19th century, large-scale industrialization and the triumph of steam engines, experiments with electricity and the creation of controlled monsters – are closely intertwined with a detective story, a spy line, mysticism or an alternative history. As an example, you can cite the films “Van Helsing” (2004), “Death Machines” (2018), books from Scott Westerfeld’s trilogy “Leviathan”, the book “Station on the Street of Despair” by China Miéville.
“Lovely Prodigal”, Valentin Tarasov (“KM-BUKS Publishing Group”)
Romantic fin de siècle is the border between the 19th and 20th centuries. Young gulvisa Mykhailo Svyridovych Lanovy, whom a caring uncle sent to Kyiv to study at the university, cannot waste his life on such mundane things when there are so many charming women around. And everything would be fine with Michel, as he always presents himself, if it were not for eternal debts. Creditors are encroaching on all sides, there is no salvation from them… Is there still? With a strict hand, the uncle decides to return Michel to the quiet provincial Zakopane, where a boring job in his uncle’s office awaits the lover. But who would have thought that even in a sleepy town, our hero will manage to find adventures on his head – stormy, funny and even very dangerous.
“Planet Wormwood”. Oksana Zabuzhko (Komora Publishing House)
This volume collects Oksana Zabuzhko’s most important essays of the last two decades, devoted to figures and events that the author considers culturally significant for today’s era of crisis of humanism. “Women’s”, “men’s” and “collective”, all these “portraits” are united by the author’s deeply personal experience of the current story, in which she inscribes her characters – and thereby reveals in it, even if it seems catastrophic, a previously invisible life-affirming meaning.
“OUR SAVIOR. WE ARE WAITING”, Ihor Dovganyuk (Vic Publishing and Printing Company LTD)
Futuristic vision of a just “New Earth”. The author emphasizes the happy development of humanity with deep faith in God.
“Bug”, Ihor Pavlyuk (SE “All-Ukrainian Specialized Publishing House “Svit”)
The novel “Bug” by the famous Ukrainian writer is about real events in Volyn Polissia after the Second World War. Schoolchildren from one of the local schools in Volyn, where the UPA was born, organized the Youth Organization of Nationalists, for which they were severely punished by the Soviet authorities.
The novel, sprinkled with poems by the favorite poet of one of the main characters of the novel, Andriy Nayuk, is about psychology, philosophy, and the ideology of patriotism. It has a lot of romantic love and carnal pleasures, suffering, sacrifice and betrayal, visions and phantasmagorias, insights and predictions of modern war, although it was written back in 2007. The short stories about the Golden Fish naturally integrate the novel with the existence of Being in all its micro- and macro-dimensions and pulsations.
“The Tenet of War”, Pavlo Derevyanko (“House of Chimera” Publishing House)
The year is 1852. Victory in the recent war between the Northern Alliance and the Two-Sea Alliance has cost the Gray Order many lives. The Red and Black Soviets are preparing for the election of a hetman, disturbing rumors are coming from abroad, and the Orthodox Church is openly opposing the Syromans, whose bloodless ranks are melting with their glory. Despite the decline, the knights of the Gray Order stand guard…
“Tarana”, Serhiy Karyuk (“Green Dog” Publishing House (Gamazin))
The middle of the 18th century. The bloody meat grinder of Haydamachchyna mercilessly grinds the spines of human destinies. Everyone falls into its gear — from a nobleman to a peasant. And so, during the brutal attack, another village was destroyed. Almost all its inhabitants – young and old – were cut out. A young girl miraculously escaped death, but becomes the bane of those who took the lives of her relatives. In the pursuit of revenge, which stretched for seventeen years, she erases from the face of the earth both the good and the evil, and the guilty and the innocent. But in the end, the petrified heart has to calm down: the widow stumbles upon the trail of the last killer, but here too fate decides to play an evil joke with her…
For connoisseurs of high-quality historical detective stories.
“Zloty, dollar, euro. The story of a never-crying wage earner”, Olena Kosenko-Kabyuk (Green Dog Publishing House (Gamazin))
Ukrainians do not go abroad for a good life. But none of them puts a cross on themselves. Olena Kosenko-Kabyuk’s autobiographical novel tells about the life of a wage earner who overcomes obstacles and injustice for the sake of her children’s happiness. However, life abroad is not without surprises, when a person is open in his feelings and beliefs, happiness cannot bypass him and will definitely find its owner. For suffering and wandering in a foreign land comes a reward – a meeting with the beloved of a lifetime.
This story is about the fate of a specific woman and at the same time about the fate of thousands of wage earners, about Europe from up close and Ukraine from afar. This story is typical and at the same time unique, bitter and funny, wise and naive – like all our lives.
“The Second Line (Not) Tactical Stories”, Volodymyr Gadion (Green Dog Publishing House (Gamazin))
2015 year. ATO. The fourth wave of mobilization. Each from his military commissariat, each for personal reasons: first, many different people end up on training, and then on the second line of defense. The mass is so motley that making an army out of it is more than a victory. The two and a half dozen stories that make up this story are not simple chronicles of several years ago, but sketches of the artist, written from nature, experienced, understood, somewhere permeated with sadness and pain, because this is war, somewhere full of deep philosophical thoughts, because on the razor’s edge you feel everything sharper, but somewhere also flavored with humor, because even in war there is life with its own jokes and punctures, bores and weirdos.
An original composition, a simple presentation, lively language, the effect of presence – in this book there will be a lot of new things for everyone!
“Other People’s Sins”, Tanya Piankova (Family Leisure Club Publishing House)
Just before Easter, the pregnant Gapia tragically dies, leaving behind the great secret of her heart. Her mother makes two Motan dolls for her daughter’s suitors in order to punish the one who harmed her… No one, except for Yakov’s reproach, knows that because of the strange gifts of the two brothers’ lives, shards begin to fly.
The interweaving of fates, strange and terrible events that take place in the village hold the reader’s attention from the first to the last page. And the events take place during forty days, because that’s how long the soul of Gapia walks around the world…
The play “Bread Truce”, Serhii Zhadan (Meridian Chernovits Publishing House)
What to do when you don’t trust even your closest relatives? How to get out of the trap into which he drove himself? Who can you tell about the most important things, if the language is broken, and the ability to listen and understand has remained in the pre-war past? The events of the play “Bread Truce” take place in the summer of 2014. The story of one death gradually turns into the story of an entire generation, into the story of relations between children and parents, into a story of betrayal and mistrust, full of comic words and tragic meanings, which Serhiy Zhadan knows how to combine so perfectly. The war continues, and no truce can heal the wounds inflicted: they will continue to ache, forever changing the lives of people who never intended to fight.
“List of Ships”, Serhiy Zhadan (“Meridian Chernovits” Publishing House)
Sixty poems about the memory born of love, and about the fire by which tenderness remains. Sixty attempts to outline the light and tell about the air above the city. Sixty fragments of other people’s conversations, sixty voices that fill the spring twilight. The “Ship List” is a list of those who are gone, but who cannot be forgotten. A list of names that accompany you throughout your life. List of cities where you are always waiting. Probably the author’s most intimate and painful book.
“Yes, but”, Taras Prokhasko (Meridian Chernovits Publishing House)
Taras Prokhasko, who has been promising us to write a novel for a long time, has not written it again. But he wrote – in his unmistakable style – a series of skits or, perhaps, essays. About what? About the same thing: about the future that was a long time ago, and about everything that already is, but not knowing how long it will be. In particular, about such simple things as balconies and curtains, light and stones, swings and toilets, walking through the city and shooting a film in the Carpathians, the formula of happiness and the influence factor, Babinton and Selbsferstendlich, etc. And also about the fact that you need to sleep carefully, eat breakfast – in your own way, and look – by shifting the visor. Yes, but that’s not the main thing here. Because the main thing here is the type of story in which reflections become elements of the plot and appear not as written after the fact, but as spoken at the moment of birth. And therefore, these are not sketches or essays, but stories in the strictest sense of the word.
“In Search of Barbarians”, Andrii Lyubka (Meridian Chernovits Publishing House)
Andrii Lyubka’s new book is a story about the lands and peoples between Odessa and Trieste, about the regions where the Balkans begin and do not end. This is a private diary of numerous trips to popular places, capitals, but also to provinces and unrecognized republics lost in time and space. Why Serbs don’t like Croats, and Slovenians don’t consider themselves Balkans, how the Danube not only divides, but also connects Europe, where and when Macedonian traffic policemen cheat on bribes, which girl from Bucharest the author could fall in love with, how much rakija you can drink in Sarajevo and ouzo in a Greek tavern – Lyubka tells about this and other things, sometimes with humor, and sometimes with scientific thoroughness. overcomes borders and questions stereotypes, meets and quarrels, looks for lodgings and pretends to be a Slovak – in short, does everything that needs to be done, looking for barbarians.
“Secret source” Andrii Kokotyukha, (“Educational book – Bohdan” publishing house)
Early autumn of 1981. Party and Komsomol figures die one after another in Ternopil Oblast. The cause of death was drinking spring water. And not just: near the village where the bodies were found, there is a source of St. Barbara. Local legend says that the water in it is magical. He prolongs life for people with a pure heart, and kills the wicked. Mystique – has someone unknown announced their secret war to the authorities? What secret does the dense forest hide, where a secret spring flows? Kyiv detective Igor Knyazevich was assigned to investigate the strange case. So he ends up in the mysterious village of Hayvoron, cut off from big cities, where people live by their own laws and people like him, oh, how they don’t like it… “Secret Source” is a retro-style detective story, the plot of which is mixed with Ukrainian Gothic. And also – a historical novel that transports the reader to the not-so-distant past. Those who remember those times will remember how the Soviet empire crumbled before their eyes. Those who did not live those times will understand why it fell apart.
“Crazy Raid”, Serhii Ukhachevskyi (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
The events of the novel take us to the hot May of 2014. Ukraine was changing. A war began in the East. One by one, under the pressure of the armed separatists, the cities came under their control. The unbalanced Ukrainian government, the army and law enforcement agencies did not want and could not resist it. But organized groups of patriots and armed forces still managed to resist and restrain the rapid advance of the enemy. The novel is about a successful operation carried out in 2014 by the people of Maidan to remove state valuables and documents from Luhansk, which is no longer under the control of the Ukrainian authorities. The main characters are known to readers from the novel “Such a Crazy Year”. With them are Maidan comrades who easily agree to risky operations and carry them out brilliantly. Despite thousands of obstacles, betrayals and tricks. The author, with knowledge of the material, conveys the contemporary Maidan life, life and mood in the cities controlled by the militants. The story is told in an accessible language, with light humor, interesting characters and brilliant descriptions. An exciting love line, a twisted plot with unexpected endings will appeal to a wide range of readers.
“Murder in the Library at 9 Rynk”, Viktor Yankevych (“Teaching Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
It is not for nothing that they say that a writer can involuntarily prophesy the fate of himself or others, or even predict phenomena or events… The title of the detective presentation, which came to the author spontaneously and somewhat provocatively, intriguingly, suddenly became a reality, a real horror both for him and for the guests of the event, among whom we can find many well-known personalities in Ukraine. But “librarians know everything”, so in this story, as in the previous one, Yuliya Levytska – a librarian and detective – will be able to untangle the tight knot of family relationships and, of course, find the killer. For a wide range of readers.
“Retribution”, Viktor Yankevych (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
The main character of the detective story “Revenge” is a librarian who, by coincidence, not only managed to masterfully solve a crime in a foreign city, but also met her lover. But fortunately… Ancient Kremenets, in which the events take place, serves not just as a background or background of the depicted. He is alive. The author will inspire everyone who reads it to fall in love with it.
“Fall” by Serhii Sinyuk, (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
The price of one’s solution to a complicated historical and psychological puzzle is a dozen young lives. The price of decency and professionalism is personal life. The detective “Fall” by Serhii Sinyuk is an experience of the nineties, poignantly relevant for today. For a wide range of connoisseurs of the thriller genre.
“Alignment” of Zbruch. Palpation”, Oleg Klymenko (Educational Book – Bohdan Publishing House)
The historical novel-chronicle “Palpation” is the first book of Zbruch’s “Alignment” trilogy. It talks about the duel between Polish and Soviet intelligence that took place in the Ternopil region on the eve and at the beginning of the Second World War.
High-profile events related to the evacuation of the Bank of Poland’s valuables and historical characters, including dignitaries of Poland and the USSR, are revealed metaphorically, with irony and sarcasm.
“Women’s Sultanate: Power and Love”, by Oleksandra Shutko (“Teaching Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
This edition contains letters from representatives of the “Women’s Sultanate” in the Ottoman Empire, which shed light on the style of conducting affairs and even their character, and are being published in Ukrainian for the first time. It is about the love correspondence of Hürrem (Roksolana) with her husband, Sultan Suleiman, and the diplomatic correspondence with the Hungarian Queen Isabella Jagiellonka, the Polish King Sigismund II August and the Persian Princess Sultan. Along with that, the messages of Roksolana’s successors, Valide Nurbanu and Safiye, addressed to the Doge of Venice, the French Queen Catherine de’ Medici, and the English Queen Elizabeth I. The letters of Ukrainian Valide Kyosem and Ukrainian Khatija Turkhan (Nadiyya), which they wrote to grand viziers and other dignitaries, have also been translated.
The book highlights facts from the biographies of these women not known in Ukraine until now, which emerge not only from their personal correspondence, but also from archival documents of Turkey, Italy, France, England and Poland, Ottoman annals and discoveries of Turkish scientists. All this will enable the reader to assess the role and influence of women on state affairs and better understand the processes that took place at that time in the Ottoman Empire and the world during the 16th and 17th centuries.
“The Black Soldier”, Oleksandr Yevtushok (Educational Book – Bohdan Publishing House)
After two devastating defeats of the German army – at Al-Alamein in Africa and at Stalingrad in the USSR – at the end of the winter of 1943, the Ukrainian police units in Volyn left the service and joined the ranks of the newly created UPA. In order to replace them, the German occupation authorities conducted another forced and voluntary mobilization among Volyn youth. It is about these “black soldiers” that is told in the story of Oleksandr Yevtush.
“Bozhena”, Alina Chervonooka (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
“Through thorns to the stars” is the life credo of Bozhena, a student of a pedagogical university. A young ambitious girl from the province comes to the big city to get a higher education and ensure a better life for herself. Her favorite profession, financial freedom and independence are her dreams. But fate had something more in store for her — a burning, intoxicating love with a great fortune to spare. They say that dreams don’t betray – they just change them. Will Bozhena’s dream change? Will she dare to cross the chasm of social inequality for the sake of the embrace of her lover? Will she be able to trust him with a wounded heart? Only time will tell.
“Trees on the Roofs”, Oleksandr Vilchynskyi (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
When life is at the bottom, whether it’s a glass, or broken illusions, or futile efforts to learn from one’s own mistakes, suddenly she appears and everything changes… It turns out that you can fall in love even at fifty. But the novel “Trees on the Roofs” is not only about the love of Yakov, a photographer and rebel with a long gray tail and a ball in his ear, and a black-skinned Ukrainian Anzhelka, but also about a city that looks like a ship, about its houses and trees, and also about the hangout “Penguin”, where “intellectuals and artists” from all the surrounding neighborhoods like to gather, and also about houses, trees and running errands in other cities, about eternal difficult relations between the artist and alcohol, and also about cats, male friendship and undigging potatoes at my mother’s in the village… In a word, it is dedicated to all Ukrainian intellectuals who have not finished reading Joyce’s Ulysses.
“Gremyslava”, Olena Khodyuk (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
This is the first novel about the daughter of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Ingvar Yaroslavych, who grew up in Shumsk, from where she married Prince Lesko I Bily of Kraków. After becoming a widow, she was the regent of the young son of Boleslav V the Shy. Practically ruled the most powerful Polish principality. Her daughter and daughter-in-law are beatified saints of the Catholic Church. Gremyslava’s biography needs comprehensive research, but what is known shows us an example of a solid, strong-willed mistress, a faithful wife, a wise and selfless mother. For a wide range of readers.
“(Lies) Demetrius I: The Unborn Tsar”, Lana Perlulainen (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
(False) Dmitry the First (Yuriy Bohdanovich Nelidov-Otrepiev) (? – May 27, 1606) with the support of the magnates of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with the help of Polish soldiers, Zaporizhzhya and Don Cossacks, won the Moscow throne and married our compatriot Marianna Mnishkhovna. Muscovites endured only 11 months on the throne of their best king, and after executing him, they tried to destroy even the traces of his reforms. We could now have a completely different Russia. But the story does not tolerate a conventional way…
“Unnative Tsar” was written at the same time as “Empress of Trouble” and was originally part of the novel about Marianna Mnishkhovna, but the hero won back a separate territory for himself. Both novels are thematically and emotionally connected. Polish, Ukrainian and Russian sources were used in the writing.
“Marina Mnishek: The Empress of Turmoil”, Lana Perlulainen (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)
This is the life story of our compatriot Marianna Mniskhovna (1588–1614), better known as Marina Mniszek due to the Russians misreading her last name (in Polish, Mniszech means chenchik, and Mniszek means dandelion). The youngest daughter of the Polish tycoon Jerzy Mnishka was born in the Starosambir district of the Lviv region. Fate connected her with the (false) Dmitrys – the First and Second, the Cossack chieftain Ivan Zarutsky, made her the first empress of Moscow and the rival of the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sigismund III Vasa. And in the end she took everything.
“Unconquered Carpathian Ukraine”, Oleksandr Gavrosh (Educational Book – Bohdan Publishing House)
The famous journalist, writer, playwright Oleksandr Havrosh talks about his discoveries related to Carpathian Ukraine, which became the center of Ukrainian political life in 1938-1939. The author collected these materials for years, publishing them in the press, until he finally decided to publish them separately. In addition to journalistic investigations, the book also contains the author’s play “Last Tango in Khust”, which was successfully premiered on March 14, 2019 as part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Carpathian Ukraine – it is the first dramatic work about those heroic and tragic events on the Ukrainian professional scene.
In the second stage, each expert will choose five candidate books from this list, which they will place in order of ranking.
Accordingly:
1st place (5 points) — winner and further
II place (4 points),
III place (3 points),
IV place (2 points),
V place (1 point).
The organizing committee, by counting points, will determine 3 books in each of the nominations, which will go to the third stage of voting. These finalist works will be presented at the discretion of readers in libraries almost throughout Ukraine. During this voting, the final winner will be determined.
Book prize “Espreso. “Readers’ Choice” was founded by the NGO “Demforum” and the TV channel “Espreso”. Its presentation took place on May 18, 2017 as part of the “Book Arsenal” in Kyiv.
The award is designed to celebrate the best Ukrainian modern literary novelties of the year, to support the interest of Ukrainians in reading domestic authors. To help readers choose interesting books, and publishers to find a way to readers. The winners of the Award will be announced at the end of November 2020 on the air of the “Espreso” TV channel, on the “Espreso.TV” and “Demforum” websites.
