Nikolai Grozni

Photograph by Marion Ettlinger

About The Author

Nikolai Grozni began training as a classical pianist at age four, and won his first major award in Salerno, Italy, at the age of ten. Grozni's acclaimed memoir Turtle Feet follows his four years spent as a Buddhist monk studying at the Institute of Tibetan Dialectics in Dharamsala, and later at a monastery in South India. Grozni holds an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. He lives with his wife and their children in France.

Books by Nikolai Grozni

Wunderkind

A Novel

By Nikolai Grozni
Life in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the late 1980s is bleak and controlled.
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