About the book: 2015 / Votrin Valery Genrikhovich was born in 1974 in Tashkent. He graduated from the Romano-Germanic Faculty of Tashkent University, master's and doctoral studies at the University of Brussels, specializing in ecology. As a prose writer, he was published in the magazines “New World”, “Star of the East”, “New Youth”, “TextOnly”, “New Journal”, “Russian Prose”, etc. Author of the books “Zhalitvoslov” (M., 2007), “The Last Magog" (M., 2009), "Speech therapist" (M., 2012). Finalist of the Andrei Bely Prize (2009), nominee of the Russian Prize (2009), Big Book Prize (2010, 2013), Russian Booker Prize (2013), Alexander Pyatigorsky Prize (2013). Translates English prose and poetry of the 17th - 20th centuries. Lives in Bath (UK). Published in New World magazine, issue 4, 2015