Ukraine's most important writer, Andrey Kurkov, will deliver this year's Havighurst Lecture.
Ukraine's most celebrated novelist, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay writer before becoming a novelist. His books include the 2024 International Booker Prize-longlisted The Silver Bone, the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Grey Bees, and the international bestseller Death and the Penguin.
As well as writing fiction for adults and children, Kurkov has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev, was published in 2014. He has recently published two volumes of his ongoing diary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Diary of an Invasion (Deep Vellum, 2023) and Our Daily War (Open Borders Press, 2025).
He lives in Kyiv with his British wife and their three children.
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