Luke Harding & Andrey Kurkov | The New World Order in a Time of War

Sun 22 Nov 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am

Join Luke Harding and Andrey Kurkov for an essential conversation covering recent developments from Ukraine and the shattering of the international order. In his clear-eyed book Betrayal, Luke visits Ukraine villages under Russian bombardment, talks to Greenlanders about a US takeover, and tours the divided Korean peninsula. Andrey’s Three Years on Fire chronicles the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, capturing the unexpected joy, immense resilience and unimaginable losses of a nation.

Venue: TTP Stage (Cambridge Union)

Duration: 1 hour

Three Years on Fire is a 2026 Orwell Foundation Political Writing Prize Finalist

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Author Biographies

Luke Harding is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. During his time as the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief, the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war. Two of his books have been shortlisted for the Orwell prize. 

Andrey Kurkov was born near Leningrad in 1961 and graduated from Kyiv Pedagogical Academy of Foreign Languages in 1983. After working as a prison guard in Odesa and as a journalist, he self-published his texts and found renown as a novelist. His novel Death and the Penguin, his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than 43 languages, and has been in print since its publication in 2001. 

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the author has published unrivalled reports from his war-torn country in newspapers and magazines all over the world. He has been a regular presence on radio and television, including BBC Radio 4’s “Letter from Ukraine”, and travelled worldwide to lecture on the perilous state of his country. He has, in the process, become a crucial voice for the people of Ukraine. His work of reportage, Diary of an Invasion was published in 2022 and Our Daily War in 2024.