Illarion Pavliuk — Books in Ukrainian

Illarion Pavliuk is one of the most talked-about Ukrainian authors of recent years: a writer of dark, atmospheric thrillers and science fiction that are hard to put down. His novel I See You're Interested in Darkness became a modern Ukrainian bestseller, and his new science fiction novel Something Is Wrong with Eliza comes out in December 2026.

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Where to start

• Something Is Wrong with Eliza — after a crash deep in a post-war exclusion zone, a robot comes to believe it is human, and that its human partner is the robot. Pre-order now: on sale December 16, 2026.
• I See You're Interested in Darkness — a criminal psychologist searches for a missing girl in a village that prefers not to notice its own monster. A thriller about indifference and the darkness inside us.
• Emil's Book — a boy who cannot sleep, a mother who is forgetting everything, and a phone call from a brother who died. A tender, eerie fantasy about memory and love.
• White Ashes — a noir detective story with a nod to Gogol: a private detective investigates the death of a young lady, and every mystery has two explanations, one logical and one mystical.
• The Dance of an Idiot — science fiction about a space biologist who joins an expedition to a distant planet to escape his problems at home.

About the author

Illarion Pavliuk was born in 1980 in Skadovsk, in southern Ukraine. Before turning to fiction he worked as a journalist and news correspondent, and later as a screenwriter and producer of documentaries and films. His debut novel, White Ashes, came out in 2018, followed by The Dance of an Idiot in 2019. His novels are published in Ukrainian by Old Lion Publishing House (Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva).