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Dmitry Berkut (Дмитрий Беркут) is a writer and photojournalist, the author of several novels in both Russian and English. With a professional background in journalism, Dmitry has traveled extensively, specializing in social reporting. His work has been published by various media outlets worldwide. His photography book, Under the Asian Sun, dedicated to his time at the BBC Russian Service, won the Zhar-Kniga Russian National Book Design Competition in 2020.
Dmitry currently resides by the ocean in Portugal, focusing entirely on his writing.
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Average rating: 4.97 · 206 ratings · 118 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
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The story A Distant Episode, which gives its title to the collection, is one of the most brutal and piercing works by Bowles I read during my trip to Tangier. At first it looks like an ethnographic sketch: a linguistics professor arrives in a Morocca ...more
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A book you fall straight into. Mantel’s use of the pronoun he (he, Cromwell) at first feels like a stylistic glitch, but soon proves to be a device that keeps the protagonist constantly present — sometimes in the shadows, sometimes directly before yo ...more
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I read this novel while sitting in the teahouses of Tangier during my journey through Morocco. A strange feeling — to walk the very streets Bowles wrote about, to sit in cafés that have barely changed, to hear the same street noise. Voices, light, sm ...more
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“Our homeland in the language we spoke, thought, and wrote in, not the place where we were born. We live in the space of our language, and to expand it, it's not enough to just leave; we need to start thinking in other languages.”
Dmitry Berkut, Clochard

“We are all connected by the finest of threads. We create worlds for each other through our existence. When someone close to you dies, it immediately affects everything around you; and everyone’s lives, whether they feel it or not, are changed forever.”
Dmitry Berkut, Clochard

“Long ago, we had both realized that the only constructive conversation possible between us was sex. Neither of us could hear normal words. We each spoke our minds and listened only to ourselves. Only during sex did we share sensations and truly be present together. How long could that last? Probably forever. Would we have been happy for eternity? Why not? Sex wasn’t about interests or cultural differences; it was self-sufficient.”
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
Henry Miller

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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Dmitry Berkut Majenta wrote: "Ola, Dmitry! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta💙💛🌻"


Ola, Majenta! Thank you and Nice to meet you. :)


Majenta Ola, Dmitry! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!
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