wo of your books have already been published in Ukrainian: Like Eating a Stone and Today We’re Going to Draw Death. A translation of another one of your books will be released soon, but when can we expect a book about Ukraine?

That’s a very good question. When I first started coming to Ukraine, I had no intention of writing about the war in Ukraine. I believed that Ukraine has its own outstanding writers, and I wouldn’t be useful here. My translator into Ukrainian, Andriy Bondar, even joked that now every Polish writer has to write a book about Ukraine. I think he’s exaggerating: not everyone, only every other one. I believe that Ukraine has its own outstanding writers, well-known in Poland because they are translated into Polish, and they can describe this war better than writers or journalists, reporters from abroad. So I figured it was best for me to stay out of it.