Public talk with Oleksandr Mykhed

A conversation around newly translation of Mykhed's book The Language of War (recently published by Allen Lane).

As Mstyslav Chernov, Oscar-winning director of 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, puts it: “In this vital work, Mykhed takes on the challenge of finding a language to convey the horror and absurdity of war, and succeeds with devastating impact. One cannot ever truly capture the reality and enormity of war, but can only document fragments of events and snapshots of people’s lives. Mykhed skillfully collates these fragments - recollections, anecdotes, portraits and conversations, interspersed with a catalogue of war crimes - into a uniquely powerful account of what has happened to our country and our people since February 2022. Both deeply personal and of universal and lasting significance, this book should be required reading for humankind”.

The conversation is hosted by the Guardian's senior international affairs correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison.