Nikolai Baturin

Nikolai Baturin, novelist and playwright, was born in Estonia in 1936. After attending a high school, an agricultural college and a marine college, he did a five-year service in the navy. For six years he participated in various geological expeditions. As a professional trapper he spent fifteen years in the Siberian taiga. Besides fiction he has written drama, poetry, screenplays and essays. He has illustrated his own books and produced his own plays. His works have been translated into Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian languages.