Charlotte Higgins
speaker
451 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Charlotte Higgins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How long does it take you?
When do you stop dreaming in that other language?
And one of my friends was saying
Yeah, it took years and years.
But there are still memories for me that are in Russian because they were created in Russian.
And you write in the
that
Yes, he told me about how h when he was a teenager he had been a huge and still is a huge Haruki Murakami fan, the Japanese novelist, and
at that time, in common with a lot of international literature, it was translated into Russian.
There were Russian translations available but not Ukrainian translations available.
Um so what's happened to your Murakamis, our term, was the question.
Well
Most of his book collection was in his home village, which is in the Kharkiv region, in the f in the east of Ukraine.
And they all disappeared because his home village has been under occupation since the spring of twenty twenty two.
So everything has gone.
Um completely heartbreaking.
And he had a couple of murikamis with him, or one murikami with him
And Kiev, he said.
And he told me he kept it with him, but he kept it in a box under his bed.
He couldn't quite
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