Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Mark Forsyth
Date and time:
Saturday 12 March, 2022
16:00 - 17:30
Location:
Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral
22 Binney Street
London W1K 5BQ
W1K 5BQ
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.
Speaker
Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He is the author of 24 novels and 10 books for children. More than 20 feature, short, tv films, and documentaries are based on his scripts. He is the first writer in post-Soviet countries, whose books have reached the top ten European bestsellers. Over 150 thousand copies of his most popular novel Death and the Penguin were sold in Ukraine. Kurkov’s books are translated into 37 languages. Andrey Kurkov is the president of PEN Ukraine.
Moderator
Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth is a Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, blogger, and journalist. He is best known for The Etymologicon and A Short History of Drunkenness.
