NICHOLAS KOTAR
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About Nicholas Kotar
I’m an author of epic fantasy inspired by Russian fairy tales, a writing instructor and speaker, a freelance translator from Russian to English, the resident conductor of a men’s choir at a Russian monastery in the middle of cow country, and a Grammy-nominated vocalist. My only regret in life is that I wasn’t born in 19th century St. Petersburg, but I’m doing everything I possibly can to remedy that error. If anyone knows where I can find a blue police box that’s bigger on the inside, please let me know.
My Books
My books are inspired by medieval Russia and the rich, wild, and sometimes crazy world of Slavic epic poetry and fairy tales. All of my stories include elements of popular fairy tales, but retold in a more contemporary style. It makes for a pretty original world, filled with creatures at once familiar and strange, such as:
And that’s just scratching the surface! What really makes the tales great is their complexity and their danger. No hero is completely good or completely bad. Everyone’s heart is up for grabs. And not everyone will survive.
“Blending European folklore and epic fantasy, Kotar is a brilliant new voice in speculative fiction!”
-Miles Cameron, bestselling author of the Traitor Son Cycle
In a Certain Land…
Nicholas Kotar brings you Russia’s most beloved fairy tales as you would have heard them from a grandparent sitting near the hearth on a cozy winter evening, the wind howling outside and the courage of these heroic stories lighting a flame in your heart.
Enter the world of Baba Yaga, the mysterious hag who can be both friend and foe, and follow Ivan the Idiot as he faces off against a cunning dragon with six heads. These are not stuffy, academic translations, but vividly enacted retellings from Nicholas Kotar’s 3-volume fairy tale collection, accompanied by the original music of composer Natalie Wilson.
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