Svetlana Martynchik
Encyclopedia
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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) is a Russian
Russian language
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writer and artist who has also published under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
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Max Frei.
Martynchik studied at the philological department of Odessa State University, but dropped out without graduating. Martynchik lived in Moscow
Moscow
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since 1993 and lives in Vilnius
Vilnius
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since 2004.
Works
As Max Frei, Martynchik has written ten fantasyFantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
novels in the Labyrinths of Echo series as well as several other works. Max Frei also appears as a character and the narrator in the Labyrinths of Echo.
External links
- Chingizid—Svetlana Martynchik's blogBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
(in Russian) - Overlook Press, English language publisher of Max Frei
- Official website of Max Frei
- Max Frei in Moscow Library—some texts by Max Frei