A Ukrainian bookshelf has been opened at the Bangkok City Library. The news was shared by First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.
“I am grateful to Thailand for thus becoming the 59th country to join our global project, which now includes more than 250 bookshelves and 57,000 books,” the President’s wife noted.
The First Lady shared that among the 60 fiction, historical, academic, and children’s titles on the shelf is the collection “Soul of Land: History of Ukraine in Ten Poems” – a book featuring works by Ukrainian poets translated into Thai for the first time.
Over the past month, two more Ukrainian bookshelves have also appeared in Poland: at the Silesian Library (Katowice) and the Stanisław Staszic Pomeranian Library (Szczecin); three in Hungary: at the Katona Lajos Town Library (Vác), the István Várday Library (Kisvárda), and the City Library (Záhony); one in Portugal, at the Municipal Library of Santa Maria da Feira; and one in South Africa, at the National Library of South Africa.
“I am grateful to our consulates and embassies. Ukrainian books are following Ukrainians and traveling to Ukrainians. At the same time, they are introducing our cultural roots to friends in other countries who want to learn about us not only from the news, but also through literature, academic works, and our literary heritage,” Olena Zelenska concluded.
