About the book: 2019 / Alexey Kurilko is a Ukrainian actor, writer, playwright and radio host. Laureate of the Russian, Gogol Prize, as well as the Maximilian Voloshin Prize. He has been published in international periodicals, such as the Ukrainian magazine of Russian-speaking writers “Rainbow”, the literary almanac “Khreshchatyk”, “Literary Russia”, the Literary magazine of the literary association “Edita” and many, many others. The leading actor of the theater-studio of improvisation “Black Square”, but considers literature to be his true calling. The name of the writer Alexei Kurilko is unknown to a wide circle of readers, perhaps because the wide circle has become extremely narrowed in the modern world, or perhaps because Kurilko does not know how to sell, advertise himself and his works.