Please join us for a conversation with Volodymyr Rafeyenko, an award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, literary and film critic. Having graduated from the Donetsk University, Ukraine, with adegree in Russian philology and culture studies, he wrote and published entirely in Russian. Following the outbreak of the Russian aggression in Ukraine’s East, Rafeyenko left Donetsk and moved to a town near Kyiv where he wrote Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love, his first novel in the Ukrainian language, which was shortlisted for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, Ukraine’s highest award in arts and culture. His essays written during the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion recently appeared in English translation in the collection Ukraine22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War. His novel The Length of Days (2017) on Russia’s war in Ukraine’s East recently appeared in English translation at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publishing House. His new play Signals of Being, or Verbum carofactum about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is forthcoming in 2025.