WHEN: 12 March, 16:00 – 17:30
WHERE: 21 Binney Street (Back entrance of Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral), London, W1K 5BQ
Admission: Free / voluntary donations towards humanitarian aid in Ukraine
Join us to hear from Andrey Kurkov, leading Ukrainian writer and patron of the Ukrainian Institute London. Andrey will be in conversation with Sunday Times bestselling author, Mark Forsyth.
The author of critically acclaimed novels including Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov recently left his home in Kyiv in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since the start of Putin’s war, he has been a daily presence in world media discussing how the world got here and what life has been like on the ground.
In addition to his media interviews and articles, Kurkov has been chronicling events in his diary, writing from the road as he and his family journeyed west from Kyiv. This is not his first venture into diarising historic events in Ukraine; in 2014 his daily writings following the course of the Revolution of Dignity were published as Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kyiv.
Join us to hear from one of contemporary Ukraine’s most internationally celebrated icons.