Andrei Kurkov (Ukraine)

Years in the fire:  The destruction of Ukraine. Andrey Kurkov’s unsparing, deeply human portrait of a nation reshaped by war. In February 2022, Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine. More than four years have passed since then. Andrey Kurkov’s journalistic pieces, notes and diary entries capture the experiences of Ukrainians in the third year of the war – written in his home city of Kyiv and during his travels throughout Ukraine and across Europe. Kurkov describes moments of horror, resilience, absurdity and poverty. He records the state of emergency that has become everyday life: children who are allowed to go to school only in bulletproof vests; soldiers who write haiku; the seventeen-year-old toad belonging to a general that becomes an iconic symbol of defiance. And beneath a cherry tree, the final diary of a murdered writer is unearthed – a powerful echo of a voice that was silenced.

Introduction: 
Adrian Ghicov (Republic of Moldova)

Moderator:
Olga Boz (Republic of Moldova)

Language:
English