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Andrey Kurkov: “Life is now measured in Orwells and Kafkas”

The award-winning author reflects on life in Kyiv after three years of war.

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Reflecting on the passing of the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, award-winning author Andrey Kurkov has written the diary for this week’s New Statesman magazine.

In this conversation, with Tom Gatti, Kurkov contemplates daily life in his hometown, Kyiv, and how the war has changed him as a writer.


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