Pen name H. L. Oldie Name H. Oldie Citizenship Ukraine | Language Russian Occupation Writer | |
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Genre Science fiction, fantasy Notable works The Abyss of Hungry Eyes, Kabir Cycle, Achaean Cycle | ||
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Henry Lion Oldie or H. L. Oldie (Russian: Генри Лайон Олди, Г. Л. Олди) is the pen name of Ukrainian science-fantasy fiction writers Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky. Both authors reside in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and write in Russian. At Eurocon 2006 in Kyiv, the European Science Fiction Society named them Europe's best writers of 2006. Oldie collaborated with other Russophone Ukrainian writers, such as Andrey Valentinov, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.
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- Y andreeva triumvirate h l oldie a valentinov m and s dyachenko
- H l oldie shmagic adventure ironic fantasy novel
- Dmitry Gromov bio
- Oleg Ladyzhensky bio
- References
The "H. L. Oldie" pen name was invented as a merger of their names, Oleg and Dmitry, respectively, and the initials are derived from their family names in Cyrillic (Громов and Ладыженский). They eventually decided that H. L. should stay for "Henry Lion". Choice of a "western" pseudonym was common during the early post-Soviet era, when Russian and Ukrainian publishers and readers preferred foreign science fiction and fantasy to Russian one.
H l oldie shmagic adventure ironic fantasy novel
Dmitry Gromov bio
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Gromov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Євгенович Громов, Russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Громов) was born March 30, 1963, in Simferopol, Crimea, Soviet Union. His family moved to Kharkiv when he was 11. There he graduated from Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute in 1986 and worked as chemistry engineer. Married, he has a son (born 1989). Since 1991 he has been pursuing a full-time writer career.
Oleg Ladyzhensky bio
Oleg Semenovych Ladyzhensky (Ukrainian: Олег Семенович Ладиженський, Russian: Олег Семёнович Ладыженский) was born March 23, 1963, in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine. He graduated from Kharkiv institute of culture in 1984. After that he became a theatre director. It is Ladyzhensky who's responsible for H. L. Oldie's poetry, he publishes his verse separately from Oldie books as well, under his real name.