I’m thrilled to share that my Global Talent Visa application has been approved! This feels like a pivotal moment in my literary journey – official recognition that my work contributes meaningfully to the UK’s cultural landscape. The process challenged me to articulate not just what I’ve accomplished, but what I hope to contribute to British […]
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Aivazovsky’s painting has haunted me since childhood. Those desperate figures clinging to wreckage whilst the ocean prepares its final assault – the image embodies everything I find compelling about human resilience against overwhelming forces. Writing “The Ninth Wave” felt like archaeological work, excavating layers of meaning from that single painted moment. The classical form emerged
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Maria Bregman’s review of “Anonymous Letters” appeared in Cosmopolitan Bulgaria yesterday, and I’m struck by how this international platform illuminates aspects of the work I hadn’t fully considered. She calls it “a descent into the British mists”—a phrase that captures something essential about Anna’s journey to Dorimor while viewing it through distinctly continental eyes. Maria
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Tomorrow evening, I’ll be attending “The Digital Futures of Literature” event at the Strand Campus in London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-digital-futures-of-literature). As a writer whose work often explores the boundaries between perception and reality, I find the questions raised by AI’s emergence in creative spaces particularly fascinating. The event examines how generative AI is reshaping our understanding of
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This past weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a talk by renowned Russian science popularizer Alexander Panchin at the London Russian Book Fair. As someone whose fiction often explores the boundaries between reality and perception, listening to a scientist who specializes in making complex concepts accessible was both enlightening and inspiring. Panchin’s presentation
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Yulia Tulegenova’s review of “Anonymous Letters” appeared on Creativitys.UK this week, and reading it felt like discovering someone had mapped the secret architecture of my own intentions. She calls the novel “a call to the soul” — a phrase that captures something I struggled to articulate about Anna’s journey into psychological terrain I wasn’t entirely
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There are weeks when the universe feels like it’s conspiring in whispers; April was one of them. On an otherwise ordinary Tuesday my inbox produced a black-and-gold digital seal: Creativitys UK named me their April 2025 Award laureate for Anonymous Letters. A day later I learned that the manuscript also caught the eye of the
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Yesterday marked a peculiar milestone in any writer’s journey—the publication of the first critical review of “Anonymous Letters.” Natalia Borissovna Ivanova’s thoughtful analysis appeared on Literary Year, and I find myself in that curious position of watching someone else dissect your creative offspring with the clinical precision of a seasoned literary surgeon. Ivanova brings considerable
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Dear readers, I’m thrilled to announce that my new novel, “Anonymous Letters,” is now available! This psychological mystery represents the culmination of ideas that have been gestating since those strange, isolated days of lockdown years ago. “Anonymous Letters” follows Anna, a writer who relocates to the outskirts of Brighton seeking solitude after personal turmoil. Her
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I’m excited to announce that my new novel, “Shattered Horizons of Tarveran,” is now available! This marks my first venture into speculative fiction, and I’m thrilled to invite readers into the fractured reality of Tarveran city. This project represents a significant departure from my previous work. While “Life on the Island” explored isolation through a
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