Honorable participants, dear guests, Mr. Minister.
My name is Andriy Lyubka, I'm a writer and Vice president of PEN Ukraine, but today the most important thing is that I'm a local, from Uzhhorod.
We use to say that our region is well known... but in fact, no, Transcarpathia is not known at all, and I assume that when you received the invitation, you had to Google - where is this Uzhhorod, where is this Transcarpathia? Yes, it is a provincial region, peripheria absoluta , but the war has shown that sometimes it is good to be away from the epicenter or the capital, sometimes it is better and safer to live in the province.
Anyway we are proud that in our region representatives of ...
