Back Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH, Ukrainian novelist and poet, on ‘Europe: culture at the edge of the world, or who are the losers?’

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'If we assume there were indeed any wars in the dimension of culture, then the East Central Europeans were the ones who lost those wars more often than anyone else.'
Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH, Ukrainian novelist and poet - Council of Europe Debate on European Identity, April 2013

Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH, Ukrainian novelist and poet - Council of Europe Debate on European Identity, April 2013

Yurij Andrukhovych, co-author of 'My Europe', comes from Ukraine, a part of Europe called sometimes MittelEuropa, a region which is rich in multiple nationalities, religions, traditions, cultures and languages.

In his introduction presentation, he addressed linguistic diversity, in Central Eastern Europe in particular, where the continued existence of minority languages is threatened. For Andrukhovych, losing one's language is akin to losing a part of oneself and represents the need to hold on to one's native tongue in order to hold on to one's identity...

  Biography of Yurij Andrukhovych (EN)

  Text of presentation

  Audio recording of Interview for Council of Europe website

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Strasbourg 9 April 2013
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Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies sponsored Lab 9 (Training Tomorrow’s Democratic Leaders: How to Make a Difference) of 5th World Forum for Democracy (Strasbourg, 7 - 9 November)

 

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