Aliona Gloukhova
Author
During the journey at Himalayan Writers Residency I’ll work on Closeness, a collection of loose pages, exercise in self-alteration within the landscape, studies of lines and tiny lives. Somehow earlier Closeness took a wrong direction, needed a distance. Then I discovered Yoga sutras by Patañjali, I was moved. The quality of the attention required to read those concentrated poetic formulas/sutras seems to resonate with something I sought earlier while writing a hybrid poetic text on our way of being present in/with/through the world.
Aliona was born in Minsk, Belarus. She studied art theory in Minsk, film theory in Saint Petersburg, and creative writing in Paris. An author at Éditions Verticales, she has been living and working in France since 2013. She writes autofiction novels, essays, and poetry, translates from Russian and Belarusian, and takes part in collective creative projects such as exhibitions, artist books, and performances. The docufiction film Our Quiet Place, inspired by her first book and directed by Elitza Gueorguieva (2021), has been screened at numerous festivals.
