Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival

Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October

Writers including Nobel prize-winning Abdulrazak Gurnah and Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood will appear alongside Ukrainian authors at Lviv BookForum, which is partnering with Hay festival to broadcast its events around the world.

Lviv BookForum is Ukraine's largest book festival, and will take place in person and online from 6-9 October. As digital partner, Hay will broadcast all the festival's 15 events free online, and has also curated a number of events with an international digital audience in mind.