Igor Zavilinsky was born in 1969 in Kiev (now Kyiv). After military service, he graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and then went into business. He began writing for electronic media in 2000 but his first printed publication was a collection of novellas Boatman, I love you (2018). A second collection, Lighthouse followed in 2019, the year in which his first novel, A Dream of Annapurna, was published by Samit (Summit, Kyiv). A second novel, Five Days with Lauren was published in 2021. Zavilinsky, who lives in Kyiv, numbers travel and the fortunes of Kyiv Dynamo Football Club among his other interests.
