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Ukraine's most famous author just wrote an entire book about Bakhmut
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 11/11/25 |
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 11/11/25 |
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 11/11/25 |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 7:15 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK https://kyivindependent.com/compared-to-bakhmut-this-is-already-a-different-war-novelist-myroslav-laiuk-on-his-wartime-reporting/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796453&forum_id=2).#49421681) |
Date: November 11th, 2025 7:17 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK I spoke with a trolleybus driver — she had already been wounded several times. She’s in the hospital now, and I don’t know what will happen to her next. Then you go into that cafe — it’s open at the end of the day. The barista recognizes you, makes excellent coffee, as always, and so on.
Then I ask the barista, “How many people came in today?” And he says, “You’re the fifth.”
That’s what I mean — I could never have imagined it.
(Editor’s Note: Prostir Kherson paused operations indefinitely on Nov. 11, due to constant Russian shelling) |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 7:18 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK The Kyiv Independent: Do you struggle with cognitive dissonance when returning from front-line areas to Kyiv, or especially when you travel abroad for cultural diplomacy efforts?
Myroslav Laiuk: Well, as I was told at the Frankfurt Book Fair, there’s a very interesting debate in Germany about whether it’s even worth publishing Ukrainians. When Serhiy Zhadan was awarded a prize here in 2022 — some Peace Prize — there was a huge debate here about how it’s even possible to give a “peace prize” to an author who writes about war.
I think foreigners need things explained — but explained through their own frames of reference.
And when we talk about “foreigners,” we’re talking simultaneously about everyone from Nigerians, Mexicans, and Europeans — three entirely different ways of explaining what’s happening. |