David Lyalin

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David Lyalin was born in 1955 in Leningrad. An engineer by training, he worked at a research institute and earned a Ph.D. before emigrating to the United States. Since 1990, he has been living and working in Atlanta.

His bilingual (English–Russian) book Tales of a Grandfather Who Once Upon a Time Was a Grandson Himself / Рассказы дедушки, который сам когда-то был внуком was published in 2025 by Sandermoen Publishing (Switzerland). It is a collection of autobiographical stories about family, memory, and time — engaging both for general readers and for those studying Russian or English.

Lyalin’s Russian-language works have appeared in journals in the United States and Germany, including Chayka (Seagull), Sem’ Iskusstv (Seven Arts), Zametki po

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How It All Began

Q: How did it all begin? Was there a key memory or story that sparked the idea for the book? What was the “end of the thread” you pulled on—the one that unraveled a tangle of memories? How did the idea to write a book first come about?

A: I had never written prose before. But I had always written a lot for work: scientific articles, reports, memos, analytical briefs. For over thirty years now, I’v

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Published on October 17, 2025 08:27 Tags: bilingual, culture, family-stories, identity, memoir, memory, translation, writing-process

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