Luke Harding

Luke Harding is an award-winning journalist and writer who has been reporting from Ukraine since 2007. In 2011 the Kremlin deported him from Russia, where he was The Guardian’s bureau chief, in the first case of its kind since the Cold War. In 2022 the Russian foreign ministry put him on an official blacklist. Luke is the author of eight acclaimed non-fiction books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win; A Very Expensive Poison; Shadow State; and Mafia State. Invasion was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for political writing, and in Ukraine won Journalism Book of the Year 2023. His books have been translated into 30 languages. Two have been made into Hollywood movies: The Snowden Files and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy. In 2019 Lucy Prebble adapted A Very Expensive Poison for the stage, with a premiere at London’s Old Vic theatre. The play won the Critics’ Circle award for best new play and was shortlisted for an Olivier Award. Luke lives in London and Kyiv.