Andrey Kurkov is Ukraine’s most outstanding residing novelist and one of many nation’s main public intellectuals. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, he has remained in Kyiv and printed three volumes of battle diaries (Diary of an Invasion, The Year of the Locust, and Three Years on Fire). Speaking to Jean-Emile Jammine, he describes what it means to be a author residing below the bombs.
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