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Andrey Kurkov

November 2024

  • Boualem Sansal.

    Rushdie, Ernaux and Soyinka among authors calling for release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal

    Sansal was reportedly arrested on arrival in Algiers on 16 November, with French President Macron demanding information about his whereabouts

March 2024

  • Kurkov in a bar in London in 2022 posing for a portrait

    Book of the day
    The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov – droll detective work in revolutionary Kyiv

  • International Booker prize longlist 2024.

    Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

February 2024

  • Andrey Kurkov.

    Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov: ‘I felt guilty writing fiction in a time of war’

    When Putin attacked, the novelist switched his focus to journalism. Two years on, he talks about his new crime series, life in Kyiv, and fiction as an escape from reality

April 2023

  • Lviv, the biggest city in western Ukraine

    Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – bittersweet relic of a sunnier age

  • Virmenka cafe in Lviv

    ‘A city like a book’: how Lviv’s hippy spirit is surviving Russia’s invasion

March 2023

  • Vigdis Hjorth, Georgi Gospodinov, Perumal Murugan, GauZ', Maryse Condé, Andrey Kurkov.

    International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate ‘ambition and panache’

    The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work

February 2023

  • Andrey Kurkov

    The hope for ordinary Ukrainians in 2023 is the victorious return of their country – and of the light

    Andrey Kurkov
    The war is a battle with Putin’s Russia, and a life plagued by darkness, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

October 2022

  • Andrey Kurkov

    Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov review – Ukrainian life turned upside down

    The author’s on-the-ground account is packed with surprising details about the human effects of the Russian assault

September 2022

  • Andrey Kurkov in London this month.

    Andrey Kurkov: from novelist to Ukraine’s travelling spokesman

    The Ukrainian novelist who has thrown himself into touring the world to make the case for his nation talks borscht and politics

April 2022

  • Andrey Kurkov photographed in London at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    ‘I’m not scared of war any more’: Death and the Penguin author Andrey Kurkov on life in Kyiv

    On a brief visit to London, the Ukrainian novelist talks about why he has no intention of leaving his country – or ever again visiting Russia – his mixed feelings about Zelenskiy, and how he is still keeping his sense of humour

March 2022

  • Andrey Kurkov

    Putin’s bombs and missiles rain down, but he will never destroy Ukraine’s culture

    Andrey Kurkov
    As part of Russia’s ‘total war’, theatres are bombed and intellectuals are murdered. But we will fight for our heritage, says the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov
  • Andrey Kurkov

    I have run out of words for the horror of Putin’s crimes in Ukraine

    Andrey Kurkov
    We remember the murdered bakers, the postal workers, the animal shelter volunteers and we say: there will be justice, says the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov
  • A sign of solidarity at a Berlin demonstration against the war in Ukraine.

    Beyond the fog of war: books to help us understand the invasion of Ukraine

    From Ukrainian history to Putin’s kleptocracy and Gogol’s stories, author and former Russia correspondent Oliver Bullough chooses the best titles

May 2016

  • Genre defying … Andrey Kurkov.

    The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov review – a Soviet Pilgrim’s Progress

    An ambitiously philosophical exploration of Russia’s maze-like history from the writer of Death and the Penguin

August 2014

  • Riot police storm anti-government barricades in Kiev

    Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev review – an invaluable guide to the present crisis

    Andrey Kurkov, the author of Death and the Penguin, is ideally placed to guide us through the Ukrainian revolution as it unfolds, writes Oliver Bullough

May 2014

  • Kiev protesters

    Andrey Kurkov to publish Ukraine crisis diaries

    Novelist's daily reflections on the unfolding conflict, and his family's situation in Kiev, will be translated and rushed into print in July

January 2014

  • Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov: 'Apart from the Polish president and the Lithuanian president, nob

    Ukraine 'abandoned' by Europe, says novelist Andrey Kurkov

    Death and the Penguin author and vice-president of Ukrainian PEN asks international community to show solidarity with protest

August 2013

  • Niccolò Ammaniti

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Edinburgh books podcast: Andrey Kurkov and Niccolò Ammaniti

  • 'Whatever!' … Kurkov handles the question of Ukraine's past wi.th a light touch

    The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov – review

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