• Formentor Ulítskaya Award: "It would have been better if I had died before the war"

  • Andrei Kurkov, Ukrainian novelist "Nobody in Europe ever had the slightest interest in knowing the Ukrainians"

The author of

Soniechka

will receive the Formentor Prize this weekend in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In her acceptance speech, reproduced here, Ulitskaya reconstructs her relationship with literature.

For an intellectual without ancestry, memory

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