Oldie, was awarded the “Golden Caduceus” prize at the festival “Star Bridge – 2000″.

The Frontier (1999), written in co-authorship with A. The novella “The Burned Tower” (1998) received a prize at Interpresscon competition in 1999. The novel The Cave (1998) was awarded “Moon Sword” prize in 1999 for the best work in the genre of “mystical literature” in 1997-1999. This novel received a literature award from the magazine “Rainbow” in 1997 and the “Zilantkon” – “Great Zilant” prize in Kazan in 1998. The novel Age of the Witch (1997) has a unique setting – it contains characters from various (mainly Slavonic) mythologies, creating a unique background. The novel The Ritual was published in 1996. The Scar has received “Sword in the Stone” (1997) award as the best fantasy novel published between 1995 to 1999. With publishing of The Scar(1997), the sequel of The Gate-Keeper, Dyachenko established themselves as masters of psychological fantastic fiction. The Gate-keeper became the first novel in Dyachenko’s fantasy tetralogy “Wanderers”. This novel received the “Crystal Table” prize at the book festival Zoryany Schlyach, the novel was awarded the title “Best Debut Work” during EuroCon competition in 1995.

Their first work, The Gate-Keeper, was published in 1994. Marina and Sergey classify the majority of their works as “M”-realism (a possible guess is that “M” stands for Magic, but it was never confirmed by either author). The primary genres of their books are modern speculative fiction, fantasy, and literary tales. They write in Russian and Ukrainian languages with several novels published in translation in the United States.

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko - co-authors of novels, short fiction, plays and scripts.

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