The author and translator of A Flight Over the Black Sea (Waterloo Press) talk to PEN Atlas about working together, their inspirations and the power of poetry in times of war.
Tag: ukraine
An Affirming Flame: the voice of Kyiv
Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.
Maidan: one year on
Andrey Kurkov, Vice-President of Ukrainian PEN, reports on his country’s revolution and counter-revolution after the first year
Memory and Responsibility
Having won the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Road to Donbass, Serhiy Zhadan writes for PEN Atlas
Soldier No. 9
Andrey Kurkov reports on the latest news from Ukraine,
Kiev’s Militant Spring
Alexei Nikitin writes for PEN Atlas about the tense atmosphere in Kiev, where the café-goers listening to jazz and the remaining protesters on the Maidan barricades await further news from the east of the country