Vita Nostra

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In a 2019 profile, Julia Meitov Hersey summarized their collaboration as follows: "It is thanks to Sergey’s skills of writing solid plots that Marina’s beautiful aethereal worlds have such a strong structure, a foundation built on the characters’ flesh and bone, their blood and tears. Their ideal fantasy is a story of a real person in a chimerical world." [12] Novels [ edit ] a b words, Julia Meitov Hersey | 1680 (2 January 2019). "Profile: The Dyachenkos". Future Science Fiction Digest . Retrieved 21 October 2022.

The Frontier (1999) ( Russian: Рубеж), written with A. Valentinov ( Russian: А.Валентиновым) and H. L. Oldie ( Russian: Г. Л. Олди), was awarded the Golden Caduceus prize at the festival "Star Bridge - 2000". Lajoye, Viktoriya (2017). Étoiles rouges: la littérature de science-fiction soviétique. Patrice Lajoye, Impr. Corlet). [Paris]: Piranha. ISBN 978-2-37119-074-0. OCLC 1010313056. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year ( link) The Dyachenkos describe their work as "M-realism" with the 'M' "open to interpretation." Without defining the meaning of the "M", in 2014 Sergey Dyachenko explained it as "Marina's realism", expanding "that's where the romanticism comes from, and the stubborn humanism, and the hope for white magic and a better tomorrow." [5] [12] Chugaister" ( Russian: Чугайстер) (from the book Age of the Witch, probably taken from a book "The Forest Song" by Lesya Ukrainka ) are magical creatures that are very similar to the human. Chugaisters, sometimes by themselves, sometimes in a group, destroy Navs (see above), by dancing around them. By doing so they make Navs to dance with them until they collapse dead. Chugaister was taken from the Ukrainian mythology, but is somewhat different from the original creature.The Green Card (2000) ( Russian: Зелёная карта), later adapted into a screenplay, is a work of realist fiction about residents of Kyiv who have received an opportunity to immigrate to the United States. We are Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, the authors of VITA NOSTRA and DAUGHTER FROM THE DARK, and Julia Meitov Hersey, the translator. AMA!". reddit. 2020. a b Sidorova, J. m (6 November 2014). "Narratology: "Anything you can do I can do better," says speculative literature to realism". Narratology . Retrieved 17 April 2022. Alena and Aspirine/ Daughter from the Dark ( Russian: Алёна и Аспирин) (published in Russian and Ukrainian) Valley of the Conscience ( Russian: Долина Совести) was awarded the Bronze Snail, [18] Russian science fiction - 2002, [19] Sigma-F, [20] and the "Golden Caduceus" award at the Golden Bridge 2002 festival.

a b c "Maryna & Serhiy Dyachenko - "A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA" Publishers". ababahalamaha.com.ua . Retrieved 19 September 2022.a b c d "Ukrainian sci-fi writer Serhiy Dyachenko dies aged 77". en.hromadske.ua. 6 May 2022 . Retrieved 19 September 2022. in Russian). Проспект. Я себя иденти… идентифи… короче, я считаю себя носителем русского языка, живущим в Украине. По-украински говорю и пишу свободно, но книги сочиняю – на родном. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Armaged-Home ( Russian: Армагед-дом) (1999), a work of social science fiction, takes place over a number of periods encompassing the life of its heroine and the society in which she lives. In the opinion of many critics and readers, it is one of the best of their novels. Magicians Can Do Anything (2001) ( Russian: Магам можно всё) was awarded the "Golden Caduceus" award at the 2001 Golden Bridge festival.

Serhiy Dyachenko graduated from Kyiv Medical Institute and worked as a psychiatrist. [9] [10] Later, Serhiy Dyachenko working as a writer and screenwriter, together with director Anatoliy Borsyuk and cinematographer Oleksandr Frolov, was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 1987 for "The Star of Vavilov" ( Russian: "Звезда Вавилова") about the life of imprisoned Russian agronomist Nikolai Vavilov. [11] The film was produced by the Kyiv Studio of Popular Science Films. [6] Serhiy graduated from the Faculty of Scriptwriting of the All-Russian State University of Cinematography in 1989. [6] [9] Maryna Dyachenko graduated from the Theatre Institute of Kyiv in 1989 and worked as a professional theatre and cinema actress. [9] [10] Self-description and Collaboration [ edit ] Although it fits squarely in the popular school-for-magicians genre, this dark, ambitious, and intellectually strenuous novel will feel like a fresh revelation to fantasy readers glutted with Western wish-fulfillment narratives. Age of the Witch (1997) ( Russian: Ведьмин век) involves characters from a number of mythologies, most prominently Slavonic. It received a literature award from the magazine Rainbow ( Russian: Радуга) in 1997 and the "Zilantkon" -"Great Zilant" [15] prize ( Russian: Зиланткон — Большой Зилант) in Kazan in 1998.Alena and Aspirin ( Russian: Алёна и Аспирин), an unrelated psychological fantastic novel, was published in 2006. It was published in 2020 by HarperCollins as "Daughter from the Dark". Vita Nostra” — a cross between Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” and Elizabeth Kostova’s “The Historian” [...] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn’t know you wanted.” -- The Washington Post Ivanova, Ekaterina (October 2016). "On Both Sides of Fiction: Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko". Russian Studies in Literature. 52 (3–4): 235–248. doi: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1264003. ISSN 1061-1975. S2CID 193721913.