Sana Valiulina was born in Tallinn (1964), graduated from Moscow State University, and has lived in Amsterdam since 1989. Author of books in Dutch - the autobiographical novel “The Cross” (2000), the collection of stories “From Nowhere with Love”, the novel “Didar and Farouk” (2006), nominated for the literary prize “Libris” and translated into German, and the novel “One Hundred Years of Comfort” "(2009). The new novel “I'm Not Afraid of Bluebeard” (2015) was written both in Dutch and Russian. The collection of essays "Winter Showers", published in 2016, was awarded the prestigious literary prize "Jan Hanlo Essayprijs". The novel "I'm Not Afraid of Bluebeard" - about the generation of "Brezhnev's children", whose childhood and growing up occurred in the era of stagnation - is made up of four spaces, four times. From the nostalgic watercolor village of Ruha on the Estonian coast in the seventies, where “there is silence, only the pine trees hum over the boulders like antennas: the sea is broadcast,” with a mysterious house in which mysterious incidents take place, through Tallinn at the turn of the seventies and eighties and hidden cruelty Soviet school and Tallinn in the early nineties, at the dawn of “wild capitalism”, with obvious and undisguised cruelty - to our time, a non-existent country and an era-without-change.