Dmitry Bykov, Creative Evening - Not a Word About Love

Name: Dmitry Bykov, Creative Evening - Not a Word About Love
Start: 2026-06-16T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-16T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Ганновер

took place · 16 Jun 2026

Ганновер, Hannover, Germany

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Dmitry Bykov, Creative Evening - Not a Word About Love — Ганновер, Hannover

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A creative evening with Dmitry Bykov (Not a Word About Love) will take place on June 16, 2026 at 18:30 at Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover K.d.ö.R in Hannover, Germany.

About: Dmitry Bykov

A poet and public intellectual who filled lecture halls across Russia before going into exile, Bykov brings his sharp literary wit and new verse - written in the years of war - to European audiences with his program 'Not a Word About Love'.

90+

books published (novels, poetry, biographies, essays)

3×

winner of the Big Book (Bolshaya Kniga) prize, Russia's top literary award

2×

winner of the National Bestseller prize

languages into which his books have been translated

What's new

2025-10
A Moscow court sentenced Bykov in absentia to seven years in a penal colony on charges of spreading 'false information' about the Russian military.
2025-09
Russia's financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring added Bykov to its list of terrorists and extremists on September 11, 2025.
2025-08
Russian authorities placed Bykov on an international wanted list on July 28, 2025, and a Moscow court issued an in-absentia arrest warrant in August.

Tour

BerlinHannoverDortmundDüsseldorfFrankfurtNürnbergStuttgartMünchenWarszawaKrakówPrahaAmsterdamTallinnRigaVilnius

Tracks

Гражданин поэт (Citizen Poet)Satirical poetry project with actor Mikhail Yefremov, broadcast on TV Rain and Echo of Moscow; made Bykov famous across Russia in the early 2010s.

Живые души (Living Souls / ZhD)His best-known novel in the West; described by the Oxford History of Russian Literature as balancing 'quasi-realistic verisimilitude with modernist phantasmagoria'.

Пастернак (Boris Pasternak biography)Prize-winning literary biography, one of his most celebrated non-fiction works.

VZ: Portrait Against the Background of the NationNovel about Ukrainian President Zelensky, published in Russian 2023 and in English translation 2024; Bykov's 99th book.

Ни слова о любви (Not a Word About Love)Current live poetry program touring Europe in 2025-2026, featuring verse written during the war years.

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