Dmitry Akulich(Inside Out)

I was born in the Kazakh SSR. When I was three, I moved to Belarus. In our family we spoke both Belarusian and Russian. At 21 I moved to Poland, and at 30 to Vietnam. They say you are as many times a person as the languages you know. So far I have four.

I write in all four: more in some, less in others. But it is the same person writing. While a thought is still inside, it has no language — it is simply a sense of life. Language appears only when the thought comes out. That is why I have gathered everything in one place: so that anyone who is curious can understand what it is about, and anyone who shares one of my languages can read it in their own. And along the way you can compare how one thought sounds in different languages.