Sergei Dovlatov (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990.
Sergej Dovlatov - jedinstveni majstor metafore. Njegovo majstorstvo leži u sposobnosti da kroz jednostavne, svakodnevne slike prenese univerzalne i duboke istine o ljudskom iskustvu, začinjene finom dozom melanholičnog humora. "Svaka boja ima sve nijanse spektra. I ko to ne vidi, slep je." - rečenica kojom nas podseća na složenost života i bogatstvo percepcije koje ponekad iz nehata previdimo u potrazi za jednostavnošću.