The Éditions Hashtag publishing house in the province of Quebec (Canada) will publish a translation of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K's "Premiers Jours D'Occupation. Derniers Jours De Volodymyr", a diary written by him while being kept and tortured in Russian occupation.
Vakulenko’s book, who was tortured by Russians, will be published in Canada
French-speaking Canadians will be able to read the dairy of the Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko.
The publication house’s plans were announced on 4 January on social media.
The diary was translated by Rostyslav Nemtsev and Felicia Michalie. The book will be the first French-language publication by a Ukrainian author in Canada. It will be available in bookstores on 19 March.
I hope that the diary will also show the other side of Moscow's attack on Ukraine. And this is Volodin's will: that as many people as possible read his diary. I tried to partially complete it, thanks to Felicia and the publishing house. And the wills of friends must be fulfilled, Rostyslav Nemtsev said.
Earlier, the Vivat publishing house reported that the first edition of Vakulenko's diary was 1,500 books, which was sold out in three weeks. The third edition is now being sold.
Volodymyr Vakulenko's mother, Olena Ihnatenko, commented on the rapid sales:
Of course, I am very pleased that people are interested in the book, that people want to read Volodymyr's works.
In addition, Bohdan Zadura, winner of the 2021 Drahomanov Prize, is translating Vakulenko's diary into Polish.
Vivat is in talks with German colleagues. There are also requests for radio, including BBC Radio.
About Volodymyr Vakulenko
Children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko was born and lived in the village of Kapitolivka, near Izyum. Shortly after the occupation of Kharkiv region, he was abducted. At the end of March, five Russian army soldiers took him from his home in what he was wearing — an old shirt, jeans and slippers. His family never saw him again.
In September, Ukrainian troops liberated the Izyum region. At the same time, the writer's father fulfilled his son's request and unearthed his handwritten diary, which Volodymyr had hidden in the garden.
In Izium, Ukrainian law enforcement officers discovered a mass grave where about 400 bodies were buried. The journal of the ritual service, where data on the dead were kept during the occupation, contained the writer's data under number 319.
Vakulenko is survived by a minor son. The child has a disability and needs help. Volodymyr was almost never separated from his son.
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