Dialogues on War: How February 24, 2022, Changed Ukraine and the World
About this ebook
Orhan Pamuk asks Sofia Andrukhovych what the first weeks were like for a family that chose to stay in Kyiv. Myroslav Marynovych and Serhii Plokhii consider why a 19th-century poet became newly urgent and trace a resistance to Russian imperialism that long predates independence. Anna Vovchenko and Slavenka Drakulić set this war beside the Balkans. Oleksandr Mykhed, whose parents spent weeks under occupation and whose house was destroyed, talks with Witold Szabłowski about the nature of dictatorship. Irena Karpa and Edith Eger, a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, take up what a society does with trauma it cannot yet name. Valerii Pekar and Francis Fukuyama weigh what the war has done to the international order.
Arundhati Roy, Timothy Snyder, Margaret MacMillan, Philippe Sands, Sofi Oksanen, Agnieszka Holland, Andrey Kurkov, Christina Lamb, and some sixty others appear across the volume—as well as Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian missile in Kramatorsk in the summer of 2023, whose contribution stands here as part of the record she spent her last year helping to assemble.
Edited by Olha Mukha, who hosted the original series, Dialogues on War is a chronicle of the first eighteen months written as they were lived: not a retrospective, but a record of people thinking aloud under fire, and of what the rest of the world made of what they said.
About the author
Olha Mukha hosted and moderated the Dialogues on War series for PEN Ukraine. She has worked at PEN International in London and has taught at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University in Kyiv.
Olena Ebel is an independent translator working from German and Ukrainian into English, and co-translator, with Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, of Carlo Masala’s If Russia Wins: A Scenario.
Tetiana Savchynska teaches literary translation at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Her translations include Kateryna Zarembo’s Ukrainian Sunrise and Tamara Hundorova’s Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma, and her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Asymptote.
Anna Vovchenko is a Ukrainian translator whose work includes L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series and the poetry and essays of Federico García Lorca. She is a program manager at PEN Ukraine.
