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First published in 2012 and now translated into English, a whimsical love letter to Ukraine’s cultural capital from the author of Death and the Penguin

The long list for the 2023 prize worth £50,000 has been announced

The International Booker Prize is given to the best work of fiction translated into English, which is published in the UK or Ireland in the last year, every year. A longlist of 13 books was announced for International Booker Prize 2023 today. And, interestingly, Indian author Perumal Murugan's book 'Pyre'…

The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work

Shell casings painted and auctioned, Russian books pulped to raise money, institutions renamed: the resistance has many guises, says the novelist Andrey Kurkov

The war is a battle with Putin’s Russia, and a life plagued by darkness, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

Every festive event, every competition, is an act of defiance for our country’s future, says the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

The Guardian foreign correspondent’s account of the Ukraine war is elegantly written, deeply researched and essential reading

The aftermath of a missile strike in Poland; celebration in Kherson; Ukraine dominates the G20

The long read: Despite all the warning signs, as I sat down for dinner with friends in Kyiv on 23 February, war seemed unreal. Surely, Putin was bluffing?

The author’s on-the-ground account is packed with surprising details about the human effects of the Russian assault