[Sergei Karpukhin sends this "birthday tidbit," as he puts it. -- SES]
The prominent contemporary Russian poet Timur Kibirov is writing his first novel. The first two chapters were published on OpenSpace.ru (http://www.openspace.ru/literature/projects/162/details/17120/). The title of the novel is a distant but clear Nabokovian echo: Lada, or Delight: A Chronicle of Faithful and Happy Love.