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A meeting of the students of the Khmelnytskyi Institute with the writer Volodymyr Yavorivsky

19 March 2019 19:54

Volodymyr Olexandrovich visited the Institute with a presentation of his book "I had dinner with Jesus".

Before the beginning of the literary conversation, the director of the Institute, Bily Leonid Grigorovich introduced to numerous audience the Ukrainian writer, the winner of the Shevchenko Prize, the public-political figure, the people's deputy of the six convocations, the head of the Union of Writers of Ukraine from 2001 to 2011, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Culture and Spirituality and a multi-year lead author's program on the first channel of the Ukrainian Radio "20 minutes with Vladimir Yavorivsky".

The novel "I had dinner with Jesus" very dear to the author and it was difficult to create it because of the main character works - Princess Olga - our times came very little information, and preferably all we know about the fate of the woman on the shoulder which lies guide the whole state, we know from legends and tales. But still, during the reign of Princess Olga, in historical sources there is no mention of any war.

On the last stage of the novel, Olga, after accepting Christianity, Jesus comes. Actually, it is in a sincere conversation with the princess with Jesus revealing the secret meaning of being.

Volodymyr Yavorivsky has already begun work on a new, equally interesting and, to some extent, innovative product. The writer has written about a hundred pages next novel, a hero who stands Mazepa, of which no writer is not written as an outstanding hetman.

Responding to questions from an enthusiastic audience and summarizing literary meeting, Vladimir Yavorivsky discovered the secret of true works of the writer.

- Materials, documents, archives, of course are necessary to a writer. But the main writer's feature is the ability to imagine; success of works is in this ability - said a prominent Ukrainian writer Vladimir Yavorivsky.

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