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Author Andrey Kurkov

Author Andrey Kurkov

The Interview vor 11 Jahren

Ukrainian novelist on the country's uprising and the impact of writing in Russian

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It's a year since the protests in Ukraine's Maidan Square -
protests that led to the fall of the pro-Russian government.
Russian-born Andrey Kurkov has published his diary of the time.
He's one of the country's most famous authors and supported the
uprising. But, although he lives in Ukraine, he writes in Russian
and because of that he's been rejected by some as a Ukrainian
writer and accused of being a traitor by Russians.

Sarah Montague asks him what role do language and culture play in
war? And was the uprising worth it?

(Photo: Andrey Kurkov. Credit: Volodymyr Shuvayev/AFP/Getty
Images)