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Pushkin House is happy to invite you to an evening with one of the leading Russian anti-war figures, writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, in discussion with the British journalist David Aaronovitch.

Glukhovsky is famous in the UK as the author of post-apocalyptic and dystopian science fiction novels (including the popular Metro 2033 series). Since the Russian troops invaded Ukraine, he has become one of the leading public intellectuals of his generation coming from Russia and speaking against the war.

In the last months Glukhovsky has been a radically outspoken critic of the Russian aggression, channelling his indignation via various media, including The Guardian. He deconstructs the imperialist inadequacy of the ambitions of the Russian state, describes the colonialist nature of the war and explains how the Russian authorities subjugate the Russian population into conformity – and even complicity.

A screenshot from Metro: Exodus (4A Games). Courtesy of Dmitry Glukhovsky.

Glukhovsky will be joined by eminent liberal British journalist David Aaronovitch, who will lead the conversation. Come to hear them discuss the right-wing radicalism of Russian propaganda, the new global order, the significance of sanctions and the role of mythological thinking in Russia and beyond.

This event is organised as part of Pushkin Book Weeks – a series of events dedicated to Russian culture and its translation as well as to wider literary and cultural debate and learning.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Russian author and journalist best known for the science fiction novel Metro 2033 and its sequels. He has also written extensively for film and television and collaborated with video-game developers. He is a member of the jury of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022.

Image credit: Gaius Cornelius, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

David Aaronovitch is an English journalist, television presenter and author. He is a regular columnist for The Times and the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country, Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists.