Darya Bobyleva

Darya Leonidovna Bobyleva was born in 1982 in Moscow. She graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute (prose seminar), Faculty of Prose, under the supervision of Ruslan Timofeevich Kireev. She is a prose writer, journalist, translator from German and English, and a voice-over actress. She has published in the magazines Oktiabr, Koltso A, Voimega, the online magazine Prolog, and in the collection ShAG-; (contemporary German-language drama). She took part in the 11th and 12th Meetings of Young Writers of the Moscow Writers’ Union. She is a member of the Moscow Writers’ Union. In 2014, the writer made her debut with the collection of supernatural novellas The Forgotten Man. In 2016, she participated with several stories in the selection for the anthology The Scariest Book 2017. As a result of reader voting, the story “The Fiery Baba” will be included in the collection.

She lives in Moscow and is married. She is very fond of Russian and German classical literature, and tries to translate the latter purely for her own pleasure. The writer describes the genre of her works as follows:

“I write more supernatural fiction than horror, or perhaps I work in magical realism—in general, I try to work at the intersection of genres, because in any one genre it quickly becomes both cramped and boring. The intersection of genres is like the junction of tectonic plates in an unsettled era: there is constant movement, and one has to keep balance, and readers’ opinions also help decide where to make the next step.”