Natasha Podlyzhnyak is a writer and the founder of the Words to Say writing school. Her work explores displacement, exile and power – within families and between women and the state. Her fiction and experimental poetry have appeared in Russian-language anthologies from Popcorn Books, Samokat and Papier-Mache, as well as in online magazines. Based in Berlin, she runs creative writing workshops, hosts a book club and raises Pepper, a red Irish terrier with a sunny beard.
Natasha Podlyzhnyak
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Publishing 3 September 2026 What brings people to today’s Berlin, what makes them stay? For some, the city is a place of refuge, from war and persecution, bigotry or boredom. For others, it’s the history or the nightlife or the broad green spaces that attract them – or haunt them. And a few are just …
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Berlin Babel
BookPre-order 13.99 GBPB-format paperback with French flaps
176 pages3 September 2026