When I was young I wanted to be a geologist. In middle school I joined a geological expedition to Irkutsk and while I was there I read a lot of works by exiled writers which gave me my love of literature.
年輕時我想做地質學家，中學時參加地質考察隊到伊庫次克，在當地讀了許多被流放作家寫的作品，轉而愛上文學。