Invidual residencies / Olot

VALENTYNA TURCHYN

From Wednesday, 13 September 2023 to Thursday, 21 September 2023

VALENTYNA TURCHYN
Poet and translator
Ukraine

Bio

She works as a teacher at the Lyceum. She is the author of the poetry book "The War will Remain in Poems"( 2022) and co-author of stories about Kyiv, "How Don't You Love" (2017, 2019, 2020). She has written many poems and stories for adults and children. She was the finalist in the "Novels in Ukrainian 2018" competition and participated in the Regional Literary Competitions such as "Zhytomyr TEN," 2019, All-Ukrainian poetry festival "An T-R-Act," "Your Poetic Postcard" project, and many online poetry competitions. She is the IV prize winner for "Children's Literature" at "Smoloskyp" publishing house, audio fairy tales of the author from the series "365 fairy tales for the night," and sound on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Book Institute.

Project

Among proposed activities I’d like to choose a talk and a meeting with another writers, teachers and students.

As a writer I’m working on my new book about students of small private school at the time of the war. The air alarm sounds, the rockets can be seen but children should study. This story is rather positive, about friendship and small joys during the war. Lessons at the shelter, loud cartoons for the purpose of children don’t hear explosions. Interesting thoughts and discussions at time when electricity is switched off but children are at school and teachers should create safe area for them.

I’d like to share my project with writers, illustrators, may be screenwriters and to discuss with them the idea of this book – education at time of the war. As a teacher I’d like to hear opinion of other teachers, their proposal and thoughts.

Notícies, articles i activitats

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