Cinematographic literature – ten fresh Ukrainian novels ready to be film-adapted

On September 19 in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2017, a special report on cinematographic literature from Ukrainian literature scholar and literary critic Tetyana Trofimenko was presented. The event offered a selection of the latest editions of contemporary Ukrainian literature which have a definite screening potential.   

This year the list includes a mystical thriller from Max Kidruk Don’t Look Back and Stay Silent, a collection of novellas by Kateryna Kalytko The Land of the Lost Ones, or Little Scary Tales, a dilogy about war by Volodymyr Refeyenko entitled The Longitude of Days, a book by Artem Chapay Dad on Paternity Leave, a novel by Larysa Denysenko Maya and Her Moms, a dystopian novel Pomyrana by Taras Antypovych, an adventure science fiction novel about the war between Ukraine and Russia The Third Front by Vladyslav Ivchenko,  a dramatic techno-thriller Look Into My Dreams by Max Kidruk, a novel about Odessa bohemian life Tanzher by Ivan Kozlenko, and also one more novel about war, The Eastern Syndrome by Yulia Ilyukha.

A similar event was held under the aegis of the conference for the second time. Just a reminder: last year the list of promising works included a fairy tale by Kateryna Babkina A Hat and a Whale; an unpublished novel by Vladyslav Ivchenko The Fighters of Invisible Front; an investigative novel by Larysa Denysenko The Echo: From the Perished Grandfather to the Dead One, a thriller by Max Kidruk The Cruel Sky, an adventure novel by Yuriy Vynnychuk The Pharmacist, a biography by Tanya Malyarchuk Oblivion, and a science fiction dystopiaby Taras Antypovych The Chronos.