Ukraine, South Africa, India: how can we better understand each other?

Ukraine has started a conversation with the countries of the "Global South". This conversation is difficult but opens up new prospects of understanding. What we still lack to better understand each other? PEN Ukraine and UkraineWorld invite you to public interview with writers and journalists from South Africa and India to go a bit deeper in this reflection.

On May 2, 18:30 a conversation with authors from South Africa and India who arrived in Ukraine as part of the In Solidarity With Ukraine program will take place in PEN Space in Kyiv, namely:

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1963. He has published nine books, the first of which appeared when he was seventeen years old. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and won it in 2021 for his latest novel, The Promise (which will be published in the Ukraine by The Old Lion publishing house). His work has been translated into thirty five languages.

Anjan Sundaram is an Indian author, journalist, academic, and television presenter. He is the author of three memoirs of journalism, Stringer, Bad News and Breakup. In 2015, a jury of journalists including Jon Lee Anderson and Carlotta Gall awarded Sundaram the annual Frontline Club prize for his war reporting from the Central African Republic, calling his story A Place on Earth "an excellent, highly original piece of reportage and writing, reminiscent of Ryzard Kapuściński and V.S. Naipaul at their best." Sundaram also received a Reuters environmental journalism prize in 2006 for his reporting from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Moderator: Volodymyr Yermolenko, philosopher, writer, president of PEN Ukraine.

Entry is free with prior registration: https://forms.gle/EEwoPiym1BxEgZMx6

The event will be held in English without translation.

Organizers: PEN Ukraine, Ukraine World

The event is held within the In Solidarity With Ukraine program with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation