The Year of the Comet

About the Author and the Translator

SERGEI LEBEDEV was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. Oblivion, his first novel, was translated into many languages and published to great acclaim by New Vessel Press in 2016.

ANTONINA W. BOUIS has translated over 80 works from authors such as Evgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Sergei Dovlatov.