The Lviv International Literary Festival (Litfest) is a literary and art festival which takes place each September since 1997 within the Lviv Publishers’ Forum. NGO “Publishers’ Forum” is the organizer. Over the years 536 writers from 38 countries have participated in it.
1997 – The Literary Festival separates from the Forum. This Festival is very popular among the youth of Western Ukraine.2001 – Foreign guests start to participate in the Literary Festival.2006 – The Literary Festival becomes international.Each year a focus theme of the Festival is chosen. It unites a series of discussions and round-table meetings.
2006 – The Limits of Europe2007 – Different Europes, Different Literatures2008 – Literature in the Epoch of Mass-Media2009 – Modern Literature: National vs Global2010 – The Dialogue between Generations2011 – Ukrainian Book Publishing Industry during the Crisis: the Time for Changes2012 – Journeys to Literature2013 – Women in the World That Changes2014 – The Short 20th Century – the Great EpochMain events
Contest and Festival “Young Republic of Poets”Night of poetry and musicTRANSLIT international translation festivalCONTEXT festival of cultural management and literary criticismOver the years 1200 events were held within the Festival. 313 events were held within the 8th Lviv International Literary Festival (2013)
Each year the Festival issues an almanac. Thematic texts and excerpts from the works of the participants are published in it. The almanac is distributed among libraries, foundations, cultural centers.
The most famous foreign participants:
Jostein GaarderZygmunt BaumanJanusz Leon WiśniewskiDanuta WałęsaOlga TokarczukMartin PollackErlend LoeMarek KrajewskiAdam MichnikLev RubinsteinTatyana TolstayaTerézia MoraAnna “Umka” GerasimovaJeremy StrongLinor Goralik 