The government fund in the USA has ceased funding the program for translating Ukrainian literature into English.

The National Endowment for the Humanities in the USA has ceased funding the publishing program of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. This was reported by the head of the program and literary scholar Oleg Ko tsyuba.Funding was stopped due to the allocation of the fund's resources to support the president's priority tasks.'This was our first federal grant of this type in many years of working on publishing,' Ko tsyuba noted.He also noted that over 3.5 years of work, 14 volumes of Ukrainian literature in translation have been published. However, due to the ongoing war with Russia, it will be more difficult to continue publishing activities without additional resources.The publishing program project was launched in 2021 with the goal of translating and publishing Ukrainian literature in English. During this Time, 14 books were published, but 16 more publications were planned.The cessation of funding for the publishing program is a loss for Ukrainian culture and literature, but Ko tsyuba called to continue working under limited conditions and to do everything possible to continue publishing activities.Analysis:The cessation of funding for the publishing program of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University by the National Endowment for the Humanities in the USA is an important event for Ukrainian literature. This will lead to difficulties in translating and publishing Ukrainian books in English, and may also disrupt plans to promote Ukrainian literature internationally. However, the head of the program urges not to stop and to continue telling about Ukrainian culture even in difficult conditions.