Anna Starobinets: “The authors and readers of dystopias are like canaries in a coal mine”
Anna Starobinets is a journalist by training and a writer by profession. Born in Moscow in 1978, the author’s bright literary career has been interrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many other writers and intellectuals in Russia today, Starobinets has had to take the painful path of exile (in her case, in Georgia) for having publicly expressed her disagreement with the repression of civil society and with the imperialist expansion promoted by the Russian government, and for refusing to accept the role of puppet that Putin now reserves for writers sympathetic to the regime.
Participants: Anna Starobinets
25 April 2023