Andrei Kurkov, Katherine Younger: "Hope, Despair, and Humor in Politics"

Hope, Despair, and Humor in Politics
In spring 2019, Ukraine elected co- median Volodymyr Zelensky as its president, as the rest of the world watched in bewilderment. But should we have been so surprised? Or is Ukraine merely the latest example of the European fashion of comedians-turned-politicians? In conversation with IWM’s Ukraine in European Dialogue program director Katherine Younger, internationally acclaimed Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov dissects his society in transition and the role of humor and irony in maintaining hope - for Ukraine and all of us.