Andrei Kurkov: “Nobody in Europe ever had the slightest interest in knowing the Ukrainians”

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The Ukrainian novelist publishes ‘Grey Bees’, a post-Soviet story set in the devastated gray area between the two countries at war

Andri Kurkov, last week, in Hamburg.ULRICH PERREY
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Andrei Kurkov (Leningrad, 1961) is one of the greatest living Ukrainian writers. His prose, marked by humor and contagious humanity, has echoes of magical realism and the absurd. But it is also filled with immense portions of reality. Abe

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