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Artem Mozgovoy

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"Spring in Siberia" @ Red Hen Press

"Living No Lie":

Artem Mozgovoy is a prize-winning writer and journalist who fled his country when Russia began legalising its persecution of gay people. His autobiographical coming-of-age novel Spring in Siberia was out in 2023 with Red Hen Press (US) and endorsed by Ocean Vuong, Stephen Fry, and Edmund White.
ISBN: 978-2-9603641-0-1
EAN: 9782960364101

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LIVING NO LIE is the diary of a gay Russian volunteer for the Ukrainian war relief effort. It combines a personal account of living under an authoritarian regime in Putin’s Russia with the heart-rending stories of Ukrainian war refugees, in an attempt to find unity – and family – in the midst of global conflict.
Publication date: 2 October 2024.
**The author directs all profits from the sale of this book to
refugees of the war in Ukraine.**

PRAISE FOR "LIVING NO LIE":

Michael Bronski (author, A Queer History of the United States, Professor of Practice in Media and Activism at Harvard):
"Artem Mozgovoy’s LIVING NO LIE: A Russian Diary 2021—2024 is a heart wrenching account of the author’s leaving Russia to live his life as an openly gay man. In his new homeland of Belgium, after war breaks out, he volunteers to work in a center for Ukrainian refugees. This is a story of exile–from homeland, from family, from freedom, from humanity–and it strikes at the heart of who each of us is today in a world torn apart by hatred and fear. Mozgovoy’s clinical eye for the details of the material world–a decaying Soviet era building, a deserted dark street in Brussels–is matched by his enormous ability to convey the deepest, often most frightening emotions. His writing can shatter the soul. To say this is a brilliant meditation on exile–which it is–ignores the cold blooded fact that the harsh realities with which his diary grapples are lived everyday by people trapped in the maelstrom of history."

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Spring in Siberia: A NOVEL BY Artem Mozgovoy

1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across their land, the Morozov family finds itself consigned to the remote, icy wastes of Siberia. It is here that their only child. Alexey, is born.

A sweet and gentle schoolboy, Alexey discovers that reciting poetry learnt by heart calms his fears. That winter gales can be battles with self-invented games, and solace found through his grandmother’s rituals and potions. But when Alexey’s classmate, the son of KGB agents, confesses his love, the desire of two boys to be together clashes violently with the mad world around them.

Exploring the healing power of literature, the magic of first love, and the ways our family and homeland can save (or shatter) us, Spring in Siberia is a coming-of-age novel that, in the darkest of times, glows with hope and the yearning for freedom to be oneself –- completely.

PRAISE FOR "SPRING IN SIBERIA":

“A work of earnest, grounded, and ultimately hopeful testimony of selfhood at
the brink.”
—Ocean Vuong, the author of the international best-seller On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

“Genuinely compelling!”
—Sir Stephen Fry is the author of, among many other best-selling works, Troy, Mythos, and Heroes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born and raised in a small town in Central Siberia at the time when the Soviet Union was falling apart, Artem Mozgovoy began his career as a cadet journalist in a local newspaper when he was sixteen; at twenty-six he was an editor-in-chief. In 2011, as Russia began legalizing its persecution of gay people, he left his homeland. Having lived in six different countries, including the US, and worked as a movie extra, a yoga instructor, and a magician’s assistant, Artem today holds a Luxembourgish passport, speaks five languages and, with his Romanian Partner, lives in Belgium.

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