Meeting with Lara Marlowe

As part of the "Ukrainian Library" series, the Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), in partnership with the Institut Français, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian Institute, invites you to a discussion of Lara Marlowe's book "Comme il est bon de ne plus craindre la mort", published by L'Observatoire.
This scientific event is organized as part of Voyage en Ukraine, the Season of Ukraine in France.
Photo du visage d'une jeune femme avec un serre-tête rouge sur fond vert
Couverture de l'ouvrage de Lara Marlowe, Comme il est bon de ne plus craindre la mort © Éditions L'Observatoire‎

Speaker

  • Lara Marlowe, Paris correspondent for the Irish Times for several decades
Moderated by:
  • Iryna Dmytrychyn, Senior Lecturer and Head of Ukrainian Studies (CREE, Inalco)

Book presentation

When Lara Marlowe first meets Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko in 2023, she immediately realizes she's up against one of the most striking personalities of her forty-two years of journalism.

Born in Kyiv in July 1995, Yulia Mykytenko co-founded the women's squad of the 16th Self-Defense Forces regiment during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests, which toppled pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Married in 2015 to soldier Illia Serbin, she joined the army the following year to serve alongside him in the Donbass. Today, she commands a unit of twenty-five male drone pilots on the front line.

Lara Marlowe delivers here a breathtaking account, which plunges us into the heart of the brutal reality of the current conflict. More than a mere eyewitness account, this book is akin to an adventure novel - except that everything in it is true: every page reveals the true nature of this war that is redrawing Europe before our very eyes.

Author's introduction

Paris correspondent for the Irish Times for several decades, Lara Marlowe has covered conflicts in the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia, and was a correspondent in Washington. She is a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

"Ukrainian Library"

This cycle aims to reflect Ukrainian current affairs in the broadest sense, through recent publications dedicated to or affecting Ukraine.

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