โ€˜I want space for jokesโ€™: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine

Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarketIryna Tsilyk is tired. The Ukrainian …

โ€˜I miss my solitudeโ€™: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a โ€˜social introvertโ€™

Author of novel Prophet Song about an imagined fascist Ireland tells Hay audience he is not a political writerโ€œI miss my solitude,โ€ last yearโ€™s Booker prize winner Paul Lynch told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.โ€œIn many ways I didnโ€™t sign up f…