Writes cities as though they were relatives who stopped speaking.

Literary fiction

Ilya Marren

Writes cities as though they were relatives who stopped speaking.

Ilya Marren worked for nine years as a sound engineer for public radio before publishing anything, and it shows: his novels are built out of what people do instead of talking.

He writes in longhand, in a notebook per chapter, and has said in interview that he throws away the first notebook every time on principle. Three novels so far, each one set in a city that does not exist and is recognisable anyway.

Writes
Literary fiction
Based in
Tallinn
With us since
2019
Books published
3

Books we have published

Write to Ilya.

Reader letters go to the house, unopened, and we pass them on. It is slower than a message form and it works better: Ilya answers letters.

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