Aleksei Nikitin

ALEXEI NIKITIN was born in Ukraine, USSR, in 1967. He studied physics at Kiev University, spent time in the army, and worked in the gas and nuclear industries—including devising an emergency system for suppressing dust contamination from the Chernobyl sarcophagus. He is a winner of the Ukrainian Writers’ Union Korolenko Prize and has published many novels and novellas. Y.T. is his first work to be translated into English.