After the War Ends
Tetyana Teren on time in London with Victoria Amelina. Translated by Larissa Babij.
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Ukraine – PEN Transmissions
To Fix Everything: In Eternal Memory of Victoria Amelina
By Oleksandr Mykhed. Translated by Maryna Gibson.
PEN Atlas Q&A: Ihor Pavlyuk and Steve Komarnyckyj
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.
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
The apricot border with Russia, or separatism on Skype
With the growing troubles in Ukraine, poet and dramatist Liubov Iakymchuk writes for PEN Atlas
World War III: a dress rehearsal
In another exclusive dispatch from Ukraine, Andrey Kurkov describes the atmosphere of tension and surreality in Kiev and Crimea, the schizophrenia of the political situation, and the ominous absence of birds before the arrival of war.
Deadlock in Ukraine
Andrey Kurkov, author of the bestselling novel Death and the Penguin, writes about the ongoing turmoil in his country, the protestors braving bullets and abductions, the influence of Putin on the government, and the fate of Ukraine itself.
The Tale of Two Adrians
Strange coincidences bring together two literary traditions in today's PEN Atlas piece by Oksana Zabuzhko, which explores Ukrainian and Eastern European authors, their debt to history and their unjustly hidden classics
