The Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, will present Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov for a special event on Thursday, May 12, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Detroit Room at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse, 231 W. Lafayette Blvd. in Detroit.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney John Engstrom, who recently was assigned by the U.S. Department of Justice to the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, but was evacuated just before the invasion, has made arrangements for Kurkov to visit the federal court for a presentation.
Kurkov was born April 23, 1961 in Leningrad, USSR. He is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling “Death and the Penguin,” nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction, and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Persian and Hebrew, and published in 65 countries. Kurkov, who has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the international media, notably in Europe and the United States, has written assorted articles for various publications worldwide. His books are full of black humor, post-Soviet reality, and elements of surrealism.
Kurkov has received several awards throughout the years, including the Readers’ Prize in Basel (Switzerland) in 2002, Write of the Year in 2001 (Ukraine), International Nikolai Gogol Prize (Rome, Italy 2012), the Readers Choice Prize for “The Gardener of Ochakov” (Cognack, France 2012). Kurkov is the president of PEN Ukraine, a non-profit dedicated to protecting authors’ freedom of speech.
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kurkov became an internally displaced person. He continues to write about the war and, in his role as president of PEN Ukraine, he has been monitoring the number of Ukrainian writers, poets and translators who have been killed. He regularly speaks to international audiences about the reality of living through a 21st century war of aggression against his own country.
For additional information on the Kurkov event, visit www.fbamich.org and click on “events.”
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