"The mass annihilation of books by missiles and drones is a continuation of four centuries of attacks on the Ukrainian language. Ukrainians have coined a new term, knyhotsyd, which can be translated as bibliocide, the genocide of a nation’s books."
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Fahrenheit 451 – Russia’s Attempted Genocide of Ukrainian Books
As the Lviv Book Forum kicks off, Stephen Komarnyckyj talks to Ukrainian poet and translator Viacheslav Levytskyi about literary survival after Russia’s destruction of millions of Ukrainian books
