Photosession by Publichnyje Liudi (Public Persons) magazine, March 2010

Аmong Ukraine's Top 20 Women by Elle (March 2008)

On Villa Hellebosch (Vollezele, Belgium).
March 2008.
© І.Put

«My resonant literary debut occurred at the age when my favourite reading was “Winnie-the-Pooh” (the first literary character with whom I identified myself, all the more so that he was writing poems, too). If I owe anything to the Soviet regime, it’s precisely the abrupt and timely end it had put to my prematurely begun “literary career”, for the entire Brezhnev era. Were it not for this interference, I would have quickly learned how to please the editors, and, most likely, would have never discovered the voice of my own, a fate which befalls most infant prodigies in literature…»

Conductor of candles, I’ll tear off my gloves –
The black web of shadows will break apart for an instant –
And I’ll step up to your podium as Conductor of the Last Candle,
Until the moment I’m replaced.

“Pass me the microphone and I’ll say, “Ladies and gentlemen, we have created a wonderful world, and please accept, on this occasion, sincere greetings from US Air, and from CNN, and from the CIA, and the Uruguayan drug mafia, and the Romanian Securitate, and from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and from the millions of killers in all the prisons of the world as well as the tens of millions still at large, and from the five thousand Sarajevo children born of rape, who will, after all, grow up some day, and – onward and upward, brave new world, and that, actually, is all I wanted to say, thank you for your attention, ladies and gentlemen, have a good flight”.