2024 Chytomo Award winners announced

In Ukraine, the 2024 winners of the Chytomo Awards have been announced, reports Publishing Perspectives.

The Chytomo Awards celebrate achievements in Ukrainian publishing across three categories, highlighting innovations in digital publishing, cultural advocacy, and children’s literature during wartime.

The winners in each category are:

• Book initiative that promotes reading: BaraBooka Ukrainian children’s books, ‘for consistent efforts to cultivate a community of professionals and readers of Ukrainian children’s literature, and for promoting children’s reading in Ukraine and among those awaiting their return home’
• Book publishing market trendsetter: Anton Martynov, founder and former director of the Laboratoria publishing house
• Ukrainian book ambassador: PEN Ukraine, ‘for systematic efforts to build connections between the Ukrainian literary community and international opinion leaders, giving a voice to Ukrainian authors, advocating for Ukrainian culture, and implementing effective work models that allow Ukrainian writers and journalists—both free and imprisoned by the Kremlin—to be heard far beyond Ukraine’s borders’

In addition, a special award was provided by Frankfurter Buchmesse:

• Creative Women Publishing, ‘the first feminist publishing house in Ukraine focused on literature for and about women’

As the winner of this award, Creative Women Publishing will receive a booth and accreditation at October’s 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Each of the four winners receives a prize of US$3000 (AU$4793). Chytomo is a media and advocacy organisation covering Ukrainian publishing and literature.

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